Southeast of Campo: Terzo di San Martino
After going behind Palazzo Pubblico you will find yourself a few levels lower, in Piazza del Mercato, which is currently mainly a car park, with viewing platform at the end. You can realize here, how abruptly the city ends: to the left and right for several hundred meters rise quarters along the terzi, but in the middle the area descends into the rural valley.
At the top of Campo, at the intersection of the main streets, is Loggia di Mercanzia, where merchants carried out their transactions. It is a fifteenth-century construction, basically Renaissance, but the niches with the saints are Gothic. Walking from here along Banchi di Sotto, pass by Palazzo Piccolomini, more unambiguously Renaissance building, erected by Bernard Rossellino, an architect employed by Pope Pius II of Sienese (Enea Piccolomini) In Pienza. Currently, it houses the State Archives (pn.-pt. 9.00-13.00; free admission—ask at reception), where the painted covers of Taolette di Biccherna are exhibited, municipal accounting books. Earlier paintings are devoted to religious themes, but soon they move towards secular images from the life of the city: monks checking bills, victories over the Florentines, demolition of a Spanish fortress, entrance Cosima I.
Going south along the parallel via Salicotto you enter the torre contrada area, from the museum (at 76) and a square with a fountain a few houses away. This street and via San Martino lead to the end of Terzo di San Martino and to Santa Maria dei Servi, massive monastery church of napkins. In the interior there are two contrasting frescoes depicting the Slaughter of the Innocents — one is a Gothic version of Lorenzetti in the second chapel behind the main altar., and the second is Matteo di Giovani's Renaissance treatment of the subject (1492) in the fifth chapel on the right. In the church there are also some beautiful altar paintings by Lippa Memmi and Taddeo di Bartola.
Southwest of Campo
Via di Citta crosses the oldest, cathedral district of the city and is built up is one of the most beautiful private palazzi in Siena. Palazzo Chigi-Saracini at 82 is a Gothic pearl, with curved façade and courtyard at the back (which you can climb). In the palace itself, closed to the public, accademia Chiggiana is located, which organizes music programs and includes an art gallery (rarely active), with works by Botticelli and Donatello.
To the left at the end of via San Floor leads to the Pinacoteca (pn. 8.30-14.00, wt.-sb. 8.30-19.00; 3000 L), located in a fourteenth-century palace. The collection is a real exhibition of Sienese Gothic painting, but only a few paintings are on a par with those of Martini and Lorenzetti in Palazzo Pubblico or Duccia in the cathedral museum.
Going further south, you pass by the church of Sant'Agostino, about capricious opening hours, with frescoes by Sodom and Matteo Giovanni and a patch of botanical garden at the back. From here you can go for a pleasant stroll along via della Cerchia, where there are some good restaurants with local cuisine (See,, Practical details") near the church of Santa Maria del Carmine: basically it is a student part of the city. Walking via del Fosso di San Ansano north of Carmine Square, you will find yourself on a country road with terraced vineyards at the bottom, leading to the Square contrada Selva (Forest) and the Church of San Sebastiano. To Duomo (Cathedral) from here you walk up the stairs of vicolo di San Girolamo.