A time-locked city of rich russet browns and weathered ochres, Siena is as perfectly medieval as greystone Florence is a Renaissance showcase, yet contrasts with its centuries-old rival to the north are striking and inevitable.
Siena is a city that features rich brown and ochre colors.
Somehow this ancient sculpted pantheon of Hindu deities and Jain prophets has survived the sometimes ferocious weather of India and Mahmud of Ghazni's iconoclasts.