Thursday Doors, April 13 2017

In the ocean of photos that I’ve taken in the past week, let’s begin with yesterday’s. They just happen to include Siena and its Cathedral.

We shall return to Siena on several more Thursdays, but today let’s have a look at the Cathedral, first from the outside and then on the inside where I was for the first time. And it’s just as overwhelming as Norm said it was.

This is how you see it for the first time. Well, maybe a little more straight.

I’ve posted these doors already but I just had to play with the impressive middle one again.

The top part.

The bottom part with the floor painting. The girl ran into my shoot just as I was ready to click.

The door in full.

With some interestingly placed and colour-coded models.

Then we realised that the entrance is 4 EUR rather than 25 EUR which is how amore remembered from his visit (this must have been for the card that included other entrance fees around Siena), and we decided to enter this amazingly intricate shrine. I’ll post more photos from the inside soon but this is what I mean:

I was quite taken by it all but in the last moment before exiting remembered to snap at every door-resembling entity for tomorrow which is today which is Thursday and doors have their party. By all means recommended.

That same middle door from the inside.

No flash allowed, but as if it would help. Do not zoom in, use your legs.

I wonder if this counts as a door…

A gate.

An open gate.

The entrance to the Piccolomini Library.

I didn’t investigate where all these doors lead.

Bathroom?

The big middle door again.

The exit on the right.

Very heavenly.

The exit from the outside.

Photo: © signature mmm

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.