Night of San Lorenzo: special opening featuring art, music, and tastings

The Chapel of the Mantle of Santa Maria della Scala has been one of the most modified spaces throughout its long history.

The medieval hospital contains an extraordinary pathway for access to the various levels and connection between the parts: this is the so-called 'internal road' or covered road, which, in the memory of the Sienese of the twentieth century, is most often recalled as 'voltoni'.

Since the fourteenth century, the San Pio hall was part of another 'pilgrimage' of the hospital which later became a nursing home.

In the 1340s, during a period of extraordinary historical significance for Siena and its main hospital, in an atmosphere of great cultural, religious, and political ferment, the assisting and religious spaces of Santa Maria della Scala were extensively renovated and enriched with decorative elements, paintings, furnishings, and chapels, to the extent that the hospital became one of the most important centers of artistic production of the early Sienese Renaissance.

On August 17, 1379, a resolution from the hospital indicated the existence of a pilgrim shelter and ordered its doubling in an identical room.

In 1328, the hospital expanded its structure with the construction of a male pilgrim's hostel, achieved through the acquisition and demolition of surrounding houses to overcome a height difference of three stories.

The San Galgano and Sant’Ansano halls formed a single male pilgrims' ward, later modified and expanded between the 13th and 19th centuries with various uses and transformations.

The so-called ‘Corticella’ is a junction of hospital pathways, located at the intermediate level between Piazza Duomo and the areas at the level of Piazzetta della Selva.