TORRITA OF SIENA ( automatic translation )
Torrita di Siena municipality: Piazza Giacomo Matteotti n.10 - (Siena) 0577.6881 Province: Siena Altitude: 325 m s.l.m. Surface: 58 km ²
Fractions: Montefollonico Common contiguous: Cortona (Arezzo), Montepulciano, Pienza, Sinalunga, Trequanda
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Toscana agritourismTorrita di Siena is a common one of 7.090 inhabitants of the province of Siena. Info Tourist: For information on farm holidays and country houses of the province of Siena we advise to you to visit the section dedicated to Siena farm holidays and Tuscany country houses, you will find all here the receptive structures to extralberghiere of Itinerary.it with prices, descriptions and councils on all the Tuscany farm holidays. In order to return to the Home Page visited Tuscany farm holidays and selected one suitable structure to your requirements. To Torrita of Siena, every year the Racing silk of the Somari is run. such event draws the own origins from 1966, when some torrite citizens thought just to institute one festivity in name of the protecting saint of the carpenters, Saint Giuseppe. Decided therefore to celebrate a festivity just for Saint Giuseppe, poichè the working of the wood is an activity from always a lot practiced in the citizen of Torrita of Siena. Such festivcità wanted to emphasize the hardness and the semplicità of the job of the man, and consequently a humble and untiring animal like the ass, came chosen to the symbol rank. Today the racing silk comes run from the eight contrade: beginning from the four doors of the medioevale castle of Torrita, and that is Door to Satisfied, Door to Sun, Door to Gavina and Porta Nova, until the four contrade relative to the four city rioni, that they are Station, Refenero, Sources to Giano and Cavone. All the contrade are figuring fairs of the own coats of arms, colors and, that they are acclimatizes to you in the half of XIV the century, and are constituted from a checkers, a prince, a flagman, an armed, from paggetti, the scholar, the sbandieratori and the tamburini, that all dressed with of the customs come embroider to you, that they are so very made and rifiniti in every element, that they truly seem to go back to the medieval period. Since the first weeks of the month of March it is lives the atmosphere of the racing silk: to its to approach itself, all the citizen of Torrita illuminates and the flags of all the contrade svettano to sides of the roads and the vicoletti, and is audible the tests that make the tamburini. The previous week the manifestation is absolutely special for Torrita of Siena, nonthat dense of events and particular initiatives: during the past inside of the historical center it has been assisted to medioevali dances, duels between knights, beyond that to exhibitions of archers, to the flight of the falcons and giullareschi shows that remember the wandering figure of the buffone of court, the cantastorie and the juggler. During those same days it is assisted is at the opening of the qualttro taverne, that they are Nencia, From Ghino, Ponticino and Pagone, where it is possible to taste the typical from Tuscany specialties, between which famous the Pici of the Valdichiana, is to the same presentation of the Racing silk of the Somari, constituted from a drappo of stoffa that it is painted and it realized holding with over image of Saint Giuseppe. Not to lose absolutely we remember also the “Festivity of the Flag”, than Sunday is kept before the Racing silk, to which they participate sbandieratori and tamburini of all Italy. The day pirima of the manifestation can be seen the blessing of the Racing silk, the exhibition of the school of the sbandieratori and the tamburini and, during the night, to the contest to braces between sbandieratori and tamburini of the several ones contrade, than they defy for the conquest of the title it of better. Sunday, to the mattino, the eight contrade they are introduced in the primcipale public square of Torrita of Siena and, after the Putting that comes officiata in the church of Saint Flora and Lucilla, every contrada sfoggia the ability of its sbandieratori and the own ones tamburini. To the term of the contest, all the contrade are offered to form a corteo that covers the city ways. The field of contest of the race is prepared in the spiazzo called of the “Game of the Football”. Before that the race beginnings, happens the coupling, for means of a sorteggio public of the eight asses to every contrada; the contrade then they will compete to braces through four batteries of eliminatorie. The four contrade that they will exceed just turn will come admitted to the final race, while contrade the defeats will meet from each other and which will win perteciperà with all the others to the final race, that it consists in three turns of the track. Contrada that it will be adjudicated the competition will gain the drappo painted, that is the Racing silk, that trionfalmente it will be carried with the fantino winning near the own one contrada in a bath of triumphant crowd of contradaioli, where the festeggiamenti will last until late night. To ride an ass is not simple what, therefore the divertimento is guaranteed. The contrade: SATISFIED P.A P. GAVINA P.NOVA P.A SUN STATION REFENERO SOURCES CAVONE
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