by Carlo Marroni

One enters by passing under an ancient, frescoed 15th-century loggia. The streets of the city centre are left behind and, through the large glass door looms an unrivalled view of the Campo. This is the piazza where the Palio is raced twice a year. This is Siena.

And over the centuries in these ancient rooms - overlooking the world's most famous shell-shaped piazza, the only free zone in the city in the territorial division between the 17 "contrade," or quarters - were the protagonists and witnesses of the history of a city that has left its mark in the arts, in politics, in traditions.

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Fonte: Italy24