Contrada
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Siena
This is our last day in Siena, and I haven’t mentioned the Palio yet. To understand the Palio, you need to know some things, most importantly that Siena is a city of neighborhoods, called Contrade. Families stay in their Contrade typically their whole lives, and children often marry other members of their Contrade; each Contrade […]
Posted in italy, Siena, Travel - Foreign, Tags: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Contrada, Contrade, Contrade of Siena, Italy 2009, Montalcino, Sano di Pietro, Siena, Tuscany, Vecchietta
March 25th, 2009 by alephnaught