Tour Overview
Important Contrada Information
Banner (with colors and symbols): A white and black banner with orange borders and a silver and red bordered shield in its middle. The shield is surrounded by red and white crosses and portrays a crowned she-wolf nursing the twins Ascanio and Senio, founders of the city of Siena.
Motto:Et urbis et Senae Signum et Decus (Standard and Pride of the City and of Siena)
Headquarters (seat or sede): Via Vallerozzi, 63
The Neighborhood: Via dei Montanini; Salimbeni Square; Piazza del Sale; Fontenova
Guild:Bakers
Church:Oratorio di San Rocco (Saint Rocco Oratory)
Patron Saint: Saint Rocco the Confessor
Fountain: by sculptor Emilio Montagnani and architect Giovanni Barsacchi, built in 1962, and located behind Fontenuova, in Via Pian d’Ovile
Allied Contrade: None
Adversary Contrada: Porcupine
The Walk
Begin: Piazza Salimbeni
End: Piazza d’Ovile
Stops
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Introduction
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#1 Sallustio Bandini
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#2 Palazzo Salimbeni
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#3 Via dei Montanini
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#4 Piazza del Sale
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#5 Caper berries
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#6 She-Wolf statues
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#7 Latter-day Saint meetinghouse
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#8 Fontenuova d'Ovile
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#9 Fontana del Contrada della Lupa
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#10 Oratorio di San Rocco
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#11 Porta Ovile
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The End
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