Surely the most famous square in the city is Piazza del Campo: here it takes place and the Palio are the most important monuments, it has a characteristic shape shell, lies on a reclaimed once used for markets, and then became the city center. Here is the Town Hall, built between 1298 and 1310 during the government of Nine, a longitudinal development, adorned with blackbirds Guelphs and ogives containing windows, made of brick and white marble, was used by various municipalities, now houses the Municipal Museum, where they are stored important masterpieces of Sienese art.
Next to the Town Hall is the Torre del Mangia, bell secular structure, which took its name from its first keeper, that "Duccio Mangiaguadagni", a delicious who loved sperperare their possessions to buy food, built between 1325 and 1348 , the four corners corresponding with the cardinal points, the clock was built later (1360) by Bartolomeo Guidi.
Other monuments located in Piazza del Campo are the Chapel Square, which was built in 1352 to thank Our Lady of the danger of escaped black plague of 1348; the Fonte Gaia sculptor Jacopo della Quercia completed in 1419, Palazzo Saracini, whose feature the main staircase is made fifteenth arched rampant, Petroni Palace, which hosted the notarial archives from 1350, Palazzo Piccolomini, Palazzo Tornainpuglia Sansedoni and Palazzo Vincenti.
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Other historic buildings in the city of Siena are the Loggia della Mercanzia, Salimbeni Palace, the seat of the Bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the Cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, where the pulpit by Nicola Pisano, the chapel of the Madonna the Votic, portraying the floor and the library Sibille Piccolomini, the basilica dell'Osservanza, just outside the city, on the hill of Capriola, the walls and Porta Romana, completed in 1466 on which are the Coronation of the Virgin and the Glory of Angeli.
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