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Italy 322 m s.l. - Zip: 53100 - Area code: 0577 |
 Renowned historical centre on the top of a hill, Siena was an ancient Etruscan settlement. Piazza del Campo, where every summer the famous Palio takes place, is undoutedly one of the most beautiful squares in Europe. |
| Airport: | Florence | ||||||
| Highway: | Siena | ||||||
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 TOURISM in SIENA Triventum was the ancient name of the main crossroads in the city of Siena situated along the Via Francigena amid the hills of 'tufo' with the roads that support and divide the city system in three 'terzieri' that are imprinted on the shape of a central Y, with Banchi di Sopra, Banchi di Sotto and via di Città. In the structure of the ancient Siena it frequently reruns the number 3 that meets the case of the perfect number, very adapted therefore to connote the most perfect city of art in Tuscany. Siena boasts a splendid historical center that is remained unchanged from the Middle Ages and it is therefore rich of art works, of sacred and civil architectures, of ancient traditions and delicious tastesi, like few other cities in the world. Built up straddling between the Val d'Elsa and the Val d'Arbia, Siena acts also as a gravitational center of one of the more fascinating territories in Tuscany and in the many possible itineraries, the one that goes up in the Val d'Elsa, geetting until San Gimignano and Certaldo on the traces of the pilgrims who covered the Via Francigena also called the Roman Way, it encloses landscaped treasures as no other ones have, panoramas that have nothing to envy to a beatiful painting, so many splendid artistic works and numerous unique monuments of a rare beauty. Crossing the Terre di Siena (lands of Siena) also the most ancient productive traditions will be discovered, like that one of the blown glass or the produced laity of the country, as saffron and Vernaccia di San Gimignano or 'il panforte' the cake of Siena. |
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 The PALIO di SIENA For tourists, the Palio di Siena is just a horse race that is so much able to make them hold a "bated breath" and to render a beautiful "folklore", attracted also for the bookmakers bets. For the 'Senesi' the Palio or better the 'Carriera' is instead only the blinking fruit of a preparatory job that lasts a whole year, and not only therefore the 2.nd of July or the 16.th of August. The first Palio was disputed already in the XII century and the ancient race deeply reflects life in the 17 'contrade' of Siena, indeed unique in this kind. Nothing similar to the 'contrade Senesi' the districts of Siena, does not exist in fact in the rest of Italy, where who is born there, here is christened and grows up with milk and pride, considering the companions like their brothers born for living together just like in an big family that already forms their character and identity since small children. It is for that the fight between the jockeys or 'fantini' and the horses of the Palio Race it means much more than a simple contest and that the 'mossa' or movement when the race starts, it marks in effects an outbreak of 'positive energy' that lasts 'animating it' all life long. |
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