Siena wedding venues

Why marry in Siena?

Siena is the city that Florence's medieval rivals built to outshine it, and in some respects succeeded. The Piazza del Campo, the scallop-shaped central square that functions as the town's outdoor living room, is one of the most extraordinary public spaces in Europe. The Gothic Duomo, the striped marble churches, the contrada neighbourhoods with their medieval banners, Siena is a complete medieval world preserved in terracotta and white marble.

For weddings, Siena offers something Florence and Tuscany's wine estates do not: an intact urban medieval setting where history is not background decoration but the actual texture of the street. A ceremony in a private palazzo chapel, a reception on a terrace looking over the Piazza del Campo as the sun sets, these are experiences specific to Siena.

The surrounding countryside, southern Chianti, the Crete Senesi with their otherworldly grey clay hills, the Val d'Orcia that already has its own guide, extends the offer. Siena is the cultural anchor of a broader Sienese landscape of extraordinary wedding venues.