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Siena Family-friendly activities

Our most recommended Siena Family-friendly activities

Siena: Small Group Pasta and Tiramisu Class

1. Siena: Small Group Pasta and Tiramisu Class

During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages.

Siena: Medieval City Exploration Game

2. Siena: Medieval City Exploration Game

Discover the top attractions and landmarks in Siena in a unique way by playing a city exploration game on your smartphone. Visit some of Siena's most famous sites, such as the Palazzo Tolomei, Fonte Gaia, and Piazza del Duomo. Download Questo, the gamified travel app, onto your smartphone, and begin your exciting exploration game. Assume a role in an ancient political fight between the Salimbeni and Tolomei families. Take part in a historical struggle for the control of Siena, and fight for the cause of a third family, the Terrazini. Find out secrets about the Salimbeni and Tolomei families that you can use to harm them. Stay out of the spotlight, and provoke the two families to start a war against each other. Solve a clue to reveal exact directions to your next stop on the tour, without the need of a map, GPS, or a physical guide. Each solution reveals a secret story about Siena's main attractions, such as the Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the second oldest bank in the world. Complete the tour at your own pace, and pause and restart the tour whenever you please. After purchasing the quest, an access code will be delivered to your email, which can then be used in the downloadable app. If you are a large group, one person can purchase access for the entire group by selecting the number of people in the group. All group members will be able to play the city game on their smartphone. Alternatively, each person can purchase their own ticket. You can play as a group and solve the clues together as you walk, or you can split into smaller groups/teams and compete against the others. Each person can also play on their own, separate from the group, and meet the group at the end.

Siena: Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

3. Siena: Highlights Self-Guided Scavenger Hunt and City Tour

Get to know Siena at your own pace on this interactive scavenger hunt walking tour played on your phone. Decipher riddles, interact with the most important attractions of the city, and unlock interesting facts and legends. An ideal outdoor activity for first time visitors, couples, groups, families, and children. Can be used as a great team-building activity. Solve puzzles outside of ten Siena attractions. Follow clues at each attraction to find your next destination. Enjoy the challenge of using logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to complete the game. Feel the satisfaction of solving each riddle. At each stop, learn about the attraction and solve a location-based riddle that can only be solved if you reach the specific location. Use logic, imagination, observation, and team spirit to unlock the correct code and reveal the next destination of the city sightseeing game. Have the freedom to pause or resume the tour whenever you want. Admire the city at your own pace. Uncover interesting information and facts about the city. Snap as many pictures as you want.  Start your tour from the much-photographed Duomo. Visit the unique Baptistry of St John with its facade still under construction, you will still encounter the famous hill of the imposingness of Palazzo Piccolomini. Take a picture of the small central square Loggia del Papa and let yourself get lost in the Torre del Mangia, which when built was one of the tallest secular towers in medieval Italy. Visit the breathtaking Palazzo Pubblico and pass by the Palazzo Buonsignori with its unique and world-renowned exhibits. Admire the exhibits of Santa Maria della Scala, once an important city hospital dedicated to the care of abandoned children, the poor, the sick, and pilgrims. Stroll through Piazza del Campo, considered one of the largest medieval squares in all of Europe.

Siena: Private Tour Ideal for Families with Children

4. Siena: Private Tour Ideal for Families with Children

Enjoy a private tour that takes into account children’s attention spans, not one where the young are dragged by their parents on exhausting journeys. With the help of a local guide, keep your children’s attention alive with language that is colorful and lively, and where history is mixed with art, legends, and traditions. By encouraging children to make observations, answer questions, and solve riddles, your guide will reveal the history and secrets of Siena’s monuments in a pleasant way that is sure to prevent children becoming impatient, bored, and complaining. From the meeting point in front of the Basilica Cateriniana San Domenico, you’ll learn about the traditions of the Palio di Siena horse race and admire the magnificent front of the Duomo di Siena cathedral. Next, walk the Via Banchi di Sopra — the former route of pilgrimage to Rome — that will you lead to Piazza del Campo, the principal public space of the historic center of Siena where the tour will end with a souvenir and great memories.

Siena: The 17 Fantastic Animals Self-guided Walking Tour

5. Siena: The 17 Fantastic Animals Self-guided Walking Tour

Enjoy this Italian favorite in a unique and interactive way: through the lens of photography. Explore the city as an urban safari, and look for the animals hidden around the city and the fountains that give Siena its fairytale atmosphere. First, grab the necessary kit, including an instant rental camera, instant film, the guidebook "The 17 Fantastic Animals of Siena", which contains 17 spaces to fill with photos, a city map, and a backpack. Take the opportunity to discover the most beloved place in Siena's historic center: the Contrade fountains. Track and trace each animal, symbolic of one of 17 historic Siena districts. Solve riddles and hear stories about each Contrade, or district. Snap those instant photos like Warhol did it. Attach a photo directly to the guidebook, preserving the memories of a day spent in Siena for the whole family.

Tuscany: Cake and Biscuit Cooking Class for Kids

6. Tuscany: Cake and Biscuit Cooking Class for Kids

Children can enjoy a sweet cooking class in Tuscany with assistants on hand to help, all ingredients provided, and of course, the chance to sample their masterpieces. On arrival at Organic Agriturismo Diacceroni, kitchen assistants accompany the children to their working spot, equipped with all the ingredients needed for the preparation of cake and biscuits. With the help of assistants, the kids prepare the shortcrust pastry for the biscuits, cut the pastry into shapes, and when baked, decorate the biscuits with sugar decorations. Always under the watchful eye of the friendly assistants, the children prepare and make cakes, choosing their preferred flavors for the filling. At the end of the cooking class, have a slice of cake as it comes out of the oven while enjoying the sweeping views over the hills of Volterra. Before leaving, don't forget to pack away your freshly-made biscuits to take home with you.

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What are the best day trips and excursions from Siena?

The best day trips and excursions from Siena are:

San Gimignano

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What people are saying about Siena

Superb! Our chef, Barbara, was amazing. My husband was concerned what he made would not be edible but the chef quickly put him at ease. We had a wonderful and fun family day with the best tiramisu I have had. The house is picturesque with amazing Tuscan views. Barbara introduced us to her family and we learned and shared about family life. Well worth the adventure; one of the highlights of our vacation.

The host was generous and wonderful (also the woman who translated and helped us communicate was so nice and kind and helpful) She taught us with all her heart how to make fresh pasta and tiramisu and it was so delicious It was the best experience in our travel to Italy Highly recommended!!!

Great experience with a wonderful local woman who opened up her kitchen and her heart to provide her knowledge and skill to show us how to prepare delicious pasta and dessert. We enjoyed the small group of four students for a fun evening of cooking and eating a delicious meal that followed.

Fantastic experience with Enza. Warm and lovely host who treated us like family.

Great tour in a beautiful city! Would definitely recommend to anyone!