Contrade of Siena (redirect from Contrada della Lupa)
A contrada (plural: contrade) is generally a district within the Italian countryside. In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose...
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The Contrada of the Tortoise (Italian: Contrada della Tartuca) is one of the seventeen historic subdivisions of the Tuscan city of Siena. It takes part...
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Margherita in Castelvecchio Contrada della Tartuca], Prose e poesie relative alla riconciliazione delle Contrade Tartuca e Chiocciola avvenuta il 7 novembre...
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Italy. The oratory is property of the "Ward of the Turtle" or Contrada della Tartuca, and now commonly called Sant'Antonio alle Murella. Siena also has...
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Palio di Siena (section Victories per contrada)
followed by Chiocciola, the Snail, with 51, and Tartuca, the Tortoise, with 46. Oca is also the contrada with the most wins in recent history (from 1900...
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17 wards (contrada): Aquila, Bruco, Chiocciola, Civetta, Drago, Giraffa, Istrice, Leocorno, Lupa, Nicchio, Oca, Onda, Pantera, Selva, Tartuca, Torre, Valdimontone...
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Valdimontone (Valley of the Ram), Pharmacists Pantera (Panther), Sculptors Tartuca (Tortoise), Weavers Selva (Forest), Dye makers Oca (Goose), Bankers Drago...
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Pietro da Minella. The church was used as an oratory for the Contrada of the Turtle (Tartuca) until 1663. The brick exterior remains asymmetric and unfinished...
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