Siena - Italian Movie Trips

Quintessential medieval hill town and busy university center, Siena is where medieval Italian history stopped while Florence lead the Renaissance. Every year a short and sometimes violent bareback horse race is held in the exquisitely tranquil town square. The disembodied head of the city's -- and country's -- patron saint, St. Catherine, still sits in a local church. You'll also find it appealing to browse the distinctive Sienese school of art, such as the Allegory of Good and Bad Government, much of which is likely to use Siena's namesake reddish coloring.
region name: Tuscany

Movies Filmed On Location In Siena Italy:

My House in Umbria

After a terrorist attack on a train to Milan strands a group of traveling strangers, a romance writer with a long past invites the group to recuperate at her villa, set in the incomparable hills of Umbria.

The English Patient

Set in several medieval buildings and churches throughout Italy including the hotel and monastery at San'Anna In Camprena, The English patient tells the story of an anonymous British soldier, so disfigured by injuries that he has apparently lost his will to live. The ministrations of a selfless nurse steadily reveal the true nature of his many injuries.