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Contrade of Siena
A contrada (plural: ''contrade'') is a district, or a ward, within an Italian city. The most well-known ''contrade'' are probably the 17 contrade of Siena that race in the Palio di Siena. Each is named after an animal or symbol and each with its own long history and complicated set of heraldic and semi-mythological associations.
==History==
These districts were set up in the Middle Ages in order to supply troops to the many military companies that were hired to defend Siena as it fought to defend its independence from Florence and other nearby city states. As time has gone by, however, the ''contrade'' have lost their administrative and military functions and have instead become simply areas of localised patriotism, held together by the emotions and sense of civic pride of the residents. Their roles have broadened so that every important event – baptisms, deaths, marriages, church holidays, victories at the Palio, even wine or food festivals – is celebrated only within one's own ''contrada''.
Every ''contrada'' has its own museum, fountain and baptismal font, motto, allied ''contrada'' (only ''Oca'' has no allies) and adversary ''contrada'', typically a neighbor (only four, ''Bruco'', ''Drago'', ''Giraffa'' and ''Selva'', have no declared adversaries). Often the adversary ''contrade'' share borders.
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