
Piazza Giacomo Matteotti
Begin in Piazza Matteotti and discover the contrada system—seventeen tribes, baptismal fountains, and a 700-year-old border you crossed without noticing.






Welcome to Siena's Shadow Empire—a 3-hour, self-guided audio walking tour of a Tuscan city that should not, by any reasonable standard, still exist.
Stand inside the oldest bank in the world, founded 1472
Trace the contrada system—seventeen tribes, secret rivalries
Walk the literal benches where the word "bank" was born
Hear the Villa Malamerenda banquet poisoning legend
Stand on the shell-shaped Campo, paved as a constitution
Touch a working fountain fed by 25km of secret tunnels
Visit the cathedral the Black Death stopped mid-build
See Donatello's Feast of Herod that changed Western art
Look through glass at Saint Catherine's mummified head
Climb the unfinished Facciatone for the best view in Siena
Walk Catherine of Siena's birthplace in the dyers' valley
End at a Dominican basilica the friars still inhabit
Punto di partenza
Piazza Giacomo Matteotti
53100 Siena, Province of Siena, Italy

Begin in Piazza Matteotti and discover the contrada system—seventeen tribes, baptismal fountains, and a 700-year-old border you crossed without noticing.

Walk through Porta Camollia, Siena’s northern gate—once a defense against Florence, now a reminder of rivalry, resilience, and the city’s shifting identity.

Step into Lupa territory and meet the founding myth of Siena—Senius and Aschius, the wolf, the bakers, and a contrada with no allies and one fierce rival.

Discover Palazzo Salimbeni, the predatory banking dynasty undone in 1419, and Banca Monte dei Paschi—the 554-year-old bank backed, etymologically, by grass.
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6 tappe su 29 mostrate. Le tappe 1-3 e i luoghi simbolo del tour sono aperti; il percorso completo si sblocca nell'app dopo l'acquisto.
Salva il tour sul tuo dispositivo - funziona offline una volta scaricato.
La narrazione audio si attiva automaticamente ad ogni tappa.
Compra una volta, riascolta sempre. Riprendi su qualsiasi dispositivo.
Tutte le tappe sono opzionali - l'app passa subito alla successiva.
Per la migliore narrazione usa cuffie o un altoparlante portatile.
Passa fra inglese, francese, tedesco, spagnolo o italiano quando vuoi.
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$11.99