Piazza del Campo e del Palio di Siena non ricinoscibile se visto solo in tv per la corsa dei cavalli delle Contrade Aflo

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2. The buildings and street furniture Piazza del Campo and the Palazzo Comunale. It is the palace built by the Government of the Republic of Siena between 1298 and 1310 as the seat of Government of the Nine. The stone was not used, but the brick, while the elements are in white marble. Each window is adorned with a nose cone that contains it. The battlements are of Guelph. Torre del Mangia It was the "bell" lay of the Town Hall and is named after the nickname of "mangiaguadagni" gave his first keeper Giovanni Balducci (or "Duccio"), famous for their appreciation of the pleasures of food at the table and then squander their earnings. It is among the Italian ancient towers high, reaching 102 meters to the lightning rod (second only to and monitoring of the). It was built between 1325 and 1348. The four corners are perfectly oriented in NS and EW. Chapel Square It is the marble tabernacle built at the foot of the Torre del Mangia, protruding from the profile of the Town Hall. It was built in 1352 to thank the Virgin Mary of the narrow escape the Black Death that struck the city in 1348. Above the altar, between 1537 and 1539, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi called Sodoma painted the Madonna with the Son and God the Father, whose remains are preserved today in the Civic Museum in the Palazzo Pubblico. Fonte Gaia Inaugurated in 1386 in the general joy of town for the first public source (which in the name "Gaia"), was decorated between 1409 and 1419 by the statues and reliefs of Jacopo della Quercia, the original synthesis of the Gothic tradition and innovations of the Renaissance. The remarks today are copies that were sculpted by Tito Sarrocchi in 1868. Race of “ The Palio of Siena “ The square is also famous because it hosts twice a year, just 2 July and 16 August, the Palio of the Contrada. This is a unique horse race deal which sees the seventeen historic districts that make up the Tuscan city. The race consists of three laps around the track surrounding the square, paved with slabs of stone, which is sprinkled with a layer of dust tuff of suitable thickness, such as to allow the horses to run, not without glaring slips at curves. Among these, one of the most critical is the "curve of San Martino." The race, which takes place in an unrestrained and often unqualified for low blows, sometimes bloody, door to win a single district. Essential ingredients for a "perfect" Palio "is the pair formed by the horse and jockey on each district can put together, always together with a vital dose of luck and always a crowd

48. The downtown square is home to a huge amount of young cosmopolitan

57. With eyes the wonders that surround us will embrace you and say "soon". Tina and Antonio Florino [email_address] Hugs by Aflo