Pienza, Italy Stock Photography

Pienze, Italy is known as the `touchstone of Renaissance urbanism,` mainly because of the foresight of its most famous resident in the 1400`s...Enea Silvio Piccolomini, who later become Pope Pius II. Once he became pope, Piccolomini had the resources to rebuild the town as the ideal Renaissance settlement, using urban planning to create perfectly proportioned streets and take advantage of the vie