I am planning my next painting.  This one will be called "Piazza della Cisterna, San Gimignano, Toscana".  It will be a painting of the main square in the historic city of San Gimignano in Tuscany.  "Piazza della Cisterna" literally translated is the square of the well.  The well dates back to the 13th-century (built in 1237 and enlarged in 1346) and is surrounded by some of the town's majestic towers. 

The cistern provided a safe and convenient water source for the people of the city, as reveald by the tracks left by the chains and ropes utilized to drag the jugs.

Tourists and locals use the steps around the well to rest their weary feet and watch the world go by.

The square skirts the following buildings: Razzi House with mullioned windows; Salvestrini House (thirteenth-century construction - today is a hotel); Tortoli-Treccani Palace with a Sienese shape; Lupi Palace and its tower of the Devil; Ardinghelli; and Cortesi Palace.