• fountain and baptismal font, motto, allied contrada (only Oca and Lupa have no allies) and adversary contrada, typically a neighbor (only four, Bruco, Drago...
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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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    July Palio and was organized and funded by July's winning contrada, though only if the contrada in question could afford it. After 1802, however, organisation...
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    1511. The simple two story building has been the property of the Contrada della Lupa, a ward in north Siena, since 1789. The brick façade has an oculus...
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    subdivided into different contrade. Quadrilatero della moda (Italian pronunciation: [kwadriˈlaːtero della ˈmɔːda]; literally "fashion square"), or Via Montenapoleone...
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    del Campo. There are 17 wards (contrada): Aquila, Bruco, Chiocciola, Civetta, Drago, Giraffa, Istrice, Leocorno, Lupa, Nicchio, Oca, Onda, Pantera, Selva...
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    six representatives of each Contrada preceded by a standard-bearer who rears the banner of each of the guilds of each Contrada: Tailors Valdimontone (Valley...
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    Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada. Bonechi Editore, Florenz 2000, ISBN 978-88-7204-456-8, S. 336. Comune di Siena, Santa Maria della Scala, Associazione...
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  • Contrada Basilica was one of the four contrade comprising the territory around the church of San Giovanni. The other three contrade were the contrada...
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