Submission Type
Article
Course Number
ARCH
Course Title
Architectural Morphologies and Mappings
Professor Name
Dr. Marietta Monaghan
Semester of Creation
7-14-2023
Description of Work
Throughout its history, 60 families dominated Siena, while the council of the Nine, acting as the executive authority, ruled the city as a whole. In the modern day, 17 of these families remain, albeit without the power and prominence of past centuries. These ancient families divided the city into 60 contradas (districts), with the Piazza del Campo representing the historical neutral zone where all the prominent factions could come together beneath the watchful eye of the Nine.
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