Siena, Piazza del Campo - 05 Wood Print

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Siena, Piazza del Campo - 05 by Andrea Mazzocchetti

Piazza del Campo is the main square of the city of Siena. Unique for its particular and very original shell shape, it is renowned all over the world for its beauty and architectural integrity, as well as being the place where the Palio di Siena takes place twice a year. For an ancient convention, the square and the Palazzo Pubblico do not belong to any district.
The space that would become the current square was, at the origins of Siena, a reclaimed land to allow the flow of rainwater, as a semicircular head of the Montone valley, between the Santa Maria hill and the ridge that goes towards Porta Romana. The nucleus of the city in formation was located higher up, in the area of ​​Castelvecchio and the future "Campo" was a market space, just side to the main roads of communication that passed through the city and located exactly at a crossroads. Here, the routes leading to Rome to the south-east, the sea to the south-w...

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