Tuscany
Siena
Val d’Orcia

Pienza

Pienza is a city in the region of . A UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is considered the "touchstone of Renaissance urbanism". It had a population of about 2,100 people in 2017.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Palazzo Piccolomini and Pienza Cathedral.

Museum
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is a palace in the center of Pienza, , next to the Duomo. Palazzo Piccolimini is one of the earliest examples of Renaissance architecture and was built starting in 1459 to a design by Bernardo Rossellino.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Pienza, in the , . From 1462 the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Pienza, then since 1773 of the Diocese of Chiusi-Pienza, it has been since 1986 a co-cathedral in the Diocese of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza.

Church
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is a gothic-style, Roman Catholic church on Corso Rosellino in the town of Pienza, province of Siena, region of , Italy. The church was founded in the 13th century by Franciscans from the monastery of Corsignano.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Quirico d’Orcia and Monticchiello.

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, named after Saint Quiricus, is based in the Val d'Orcia natural park at the northern edge of area in southern .

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is a village in , central , administratively a frazione of the comune of Pienza, . At the time of the 2001 census its population was 213. is about 60 km from and 8 km from Pienza. is situated 4 km east of Pienza.

Pienza

Latitude
43.0765° or 43° 4′ 36″ north
Longitude
11.6789° or 11° 40′ 44″ east
Population
2,090
Elevation
491 metres (1,611 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT PAQ
Open location code
8FMH3MGH+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 759627428
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3170829
Wiki­data ID
Q91341
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pienza” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pienza”
  • Arabic: “بينزا”
  • Aragonese: “Pienza”
  • Armenian: “Պիենցա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pyentsa”
  • Basque: “Pienza”
  • Belarusian: “П’енца”
  • Breton: “Pienza”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиенца”
  • Catalan: “Pienza”
  • Cebuano: “Pienza”
  • Central Bikol: “Pienza”
  • Chechen: “Пьенца”
  • Chinese: “Pienza”
  • Chinese: “皮恩扎”
  • Chinese: “皮恩沙”
  • Corsican: “Pienza”
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  • Czech: “Pienza”
  • Danish: “Pienza”
  • Dutch: “Pienza”
  • Esperanto: “Pienza”
  • Finnish: “Pienza”
  • French: “Pienza”
  • Galician: “Pienza”
  • Georgian: “პიენცა”
  • German: “Pienza”
  • Greek: “Πιέντσα”
  • Hebrew: “פיינצה”
  • Hindi: “पियेन्ज़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Pienza”
  • Indonesian: “Pienza”
  • Interlingua: “Pienza”
  • Irish: “Pienza”
  • Italian: “Corsignano”
  • Italian: “Pienza”
  • Japanese: “ピエンツァ”
  • Korean: “피엔차”
  • Kurdish: “Pienza”
  • Ladin: “Pienza”
  • Latin: “Pientia”
  • Latvian: “Pjenca”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjenca”
  • Lombard: “Pienza”
  • Malay: “Pienza”
  • Maltese: “Pienza”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pienza”
  • Mingrelian: “პიენცა”
  • Neapolitan: “Pienza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pienza”
  • Norwegian: “Pienza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pienza”
  • Persian: “پینتزا”
  • Piemontese: “Pienza”
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  • Portuguese: “Pienza”
  • Romanian: “Pienza”
  • Russian: “Пьенца”
  • Scots: “Pienza”
  • Serbian: “Пијенца”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pienza”
  • Sicilian: “Pienza”
  • Slovak: “Pienza”
  • Slovenian: “Pienza”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پینتزا”
  • Spanish: “Pienza”
  • Swedish: “Pienza”
  • Tagalog: “Pienza”
  • Thai: “ปีเอนซา”
  • Turkish: “Pienza”
  • Ukrainian: “П’єнца”
  • Ukrainian: “Пєнца”
  • Urdu: “پینزا”
  • Venetian: “Pienza”
  • Vietnamese: “Pienza”
  • Volapük: “Pienza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pienza”
  • Welsh: “Pienza”
  • Western Frisian: “Pienza”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮恩扎”
  • Yue Chinese: “皮恩沙”
  • “Corsignano”
  • “Pienza”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Pienza”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.