The Rough Guide to Tuscany & Umbria by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Italy
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-05-18T10:59:41+00:00

North to Porta Camollia

North of the Piazza Salimbeni, Banchi di Sopra becomes Via dei Montanini and then Via di Camollia, which run through the less monumental parts of the Terzo di Camollia, good for regular shopping and local bars and restaurants.

Two churches are worth a brief look on this street, though both are only rarely open. Santa Maria delle Nevi contains a famous altarpiece – Our Lady of the Snows (1477) – by Matteo di Giovanni, while San Bartolomeo fronts one of the nicest contrada squares in the city, home of the Istrice (porcupine). At the end of Via di Camollia is the Renaissance Porta Camollia, inscribed on its outer arch “Siena opens her heart to you wider than this gate.” It was here that a vastly superior Florentine force was put to flight in 1526, following the traditional Sienese appeal to the Virgin.

A short distance east of Via dei Montanini – reached by a circuitous network of alleys – is another of the city’s fountains, the Fonte Nuova. A further, highly picturesque fountain, the Fonte Ovile, is to be seen outside the Porta Ovile, a hundred metres or so beyond. Both were built at the end of the twelfth century. Near the Fonte Nuova, in Via Vallerozzi, is the church of San Rocco, home of the Lupa (she-wolf) contrada.

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