Stairs to Siena Old Town

We always park at the top and didn’t know there were any stairs. Good luck for us I guess,
I only remember lots of steps and escalators in Perugia.

Sienna (as I remember) is not a hill town. Walk from our hotel to the square involved very little vertical change.

Revised - went back and looked at photos. Yes definitely a hill town. We stayed quite close to II Campo at Pensione Palazzo Ravizza for 2 nights and never left the old town. Guess we did not appreciate the terrain, know we never saw an escalator!

Siena, Italy is definitely a hill town.

I've never counted the steps because the escalator works for me. I found Siena to have a bit of hill.

There is a series of six escalators, with stairs next to them. The historical cathedral, etc., are at the top of the hill.

in 2002, we parked at the lower parking lot and as it was some bank holiday, buses up were few so we walked. No escalators. It was long. I think we took the streets as my travel companion couldn't do stairs.
But a Google search says '400 steps'. Should be about 25 flights of stairs in FitBit land.

For info, a taxi from the train station to our hotel on the Campo, with luggage, cost us less than 15 Euro when we visited in May.

Thank you. We thought the escalators were a great way to keep traffic out of the historic area. And for us, the stairs were a good workout since we were not doing that much walking that day.

One of the escalators (I forget which one) was not moving when we saw it and we sighed and were about to climb the stairs next to it, but luckily we discovered that it doesn't start moving until you walk right up to it. A very sensible arrangement, but not one we'd ever encountered!