Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Centre of the City of Pienza' has mentioned 'Renaissance' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Situated between the towns of Montepulciano and Montalcino, it is considered the "touchstone of Renaissance urbanism". | WIKI |
| In 1405 Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Italian: Enea Silvio Piccolomini) was born in Corsignano, a Renaissance humanist born into an exiled Sienese family, who later became Pope Pius II. | WIKI |
| Once he became Pope, Piccolomini had the entire village rebuilt as an ideal Renaissance town and renamed it after himself to Pienza, which means "city of Pius". | WIKI |
| The back of the palace, to the south, is defined by loggia on all three floors that overlook an enclosed Italian Renaissance garden with Giardino all'italiana era modifications, and views into the distant landscape of the Val d'Orcia and Pope Pius's beloved Mount Amiata beyond. | WIKI |
| The Duomo (Cathedral), which dominates the center of the piazza, has a facade that is one of the earliest designed in the Renaissance manner. | WIKI |
| Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice when Pope Pius II enlisted the architect Bernardo Rossellino to transform his birthplace. | UNESCO |
| author of the first architectural treatise of the Renaissance. | UNESCO |
| This is evidenced in the interior of the Pienza Cathedral, typical of the late Gothic style of southern German churches while the exterior is pure Renaissance. | UNESCO |
| The bell tower blends Gothic and Renaissance forms. | UNESCO |
| As the first application of the Renaissance Humanist concept of urban design, the town occupies a seminal position in the development of the concept of the planned "ideal town" and plays a significant role in subsequent urban development in Italy and beyond. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The application of the principle of the Renaissance xe2x80x9cideal cityxe2x80x9d in Pienza, and in particular in the group of buildings around the central square, resulted in a masterpiece of human creative genius. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ii): The Historic Centre of Pienza, as the first application of the Renaissance humanist concept of urban design, was to play a significant role in subsequent urban development in Italy and beyond. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The buildings surrounding Pienzaxe2x80x99s central square are an outstanding example of Humanist Renaissance design. | UNESCO |
| It is still possible to easily read the medieval urban structure as well as the Renaissance intervention of Rossellino, as they have been preserved in the street plan, architecture and details, such as the central squarexe2x80x99s herringbone paving edged with travertine. | UNESCO |