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Loggia Della Mercanzia
Gaps between buildings behind the Fonte Gaia lead up to the junction-point of the three main streets of Siena, marked by the fifteenth-century Loggia della Mercanzia - reluctantly Renaissance, with its Gothic niches for the saints - that was designed as a tribune house for merchants to do their deals. From here, Banchi di Sopra heads north , and Via di Città curves west . If you follow Banchi di Sotto east, you soon reach the Logge di Papa with, alongside it, the Palazzo Piccolomini , a committed Renaissance building by Bernardo Rossellino, the architect employed at Pienza by the Sienese Pope Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini).
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