Siena: Supplementary Activities
Siena provides sojourners with numerous engaging activities: concerts, parades, outdoor exhibitions and celebrations. Everyone enjoys the conviviality of the caffès, the buzz of the piazza during the evening passegiata, the excitement of local sporting events, the gelati shops, and varied indigenous Sienese festivities. Intermittently there are are cooking classes and wine tasings. Of course, there are movie theaters in Siena, with American films... in Italian.
At the Siena Sojourn's Centro, conveniently located within the city walls, there are numerous ongoing activities: cooking classes, weekly communal luncheons, an Italian film series,and a mid-week journaling workshop. Participants are encouraged to keep journals, and those who do are helped to become more competent writers. Private lessons are arranged for serious musicians and artists.
Siena has an enthusiastic professional sporting milieu. Siena's soccer team "Associazione Calcio Siena" — http://www.acsciena.it — moved up to the Serie A, premiére Italian league recently. The soccer games are held in the stadio inside the city walls within easy walking distance.
Siena's Basketball Team, "Mens Sana" — http://www.menssanabasket.it — won the the Italian championship the first time several years ago and is a contender in the European championships
In Siena, there are also public tennis and basketball courts and indoor and outdoor swimming pools, just outside the city walls. In all, plenty of opportunities for recreation — bocce ball, too!