Best Dog-Friendly Parks & Green Spaces in Siena

A 2 hectare 16th-century Medici-era pentagonal brick fortress turned urban park on the north-west edge of the historic centre, built by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1561-1563 after the 1555 fall of Siena to Florence. The grass-and-gravel ramparts offer a 360 degree panoramic loop walk (1.2 km) over the Duomo, the Torre del Mangia and out to the Crete Senesi hills. A designated dog off-leash area sits on the south-east bastion. Hosts the Enoteca Italiana wine museum in the bastions.

A 5 hectare medieval valley garden in the natural hollow directly below the south side of Piazza del Campo, run as a social cooperative since 1987 with a reconstructed medieval vineyard (using ampelographic varieties from the Lorenzetti Good Government fresco of 1338), vegetable plots, fruit orchards, beehives and a small farmyard of sheep, donkeys, geese and ducks. A trattoria and a children's farm. Leashed dogs welcome on all the garden paths and the trattoria garden terrace year-round.

A 1.5 hectare formal 19th-century public garden laid out in 1779 between the Fortezza Medicea and the city walls, with mature plane trees, a central monument to Garibaldi, gravel paths, benches and a children's playground. Hosts the weekly Wednesday market (clothes, food, household), the largest open-air market in central Tuscany. Leashed dogs welcome year-round on all paths; the playground is fenced and pet-free.