List hotels in Siena Tuscany. Accommodation Siena Italy booking on line Siena hotels. City of Tuscany, chief town of the homonym province; common of 118,71 km2s with 54.436 inhabitants (respect 2000). It is situated to 322 ms s.m. in splendid panoramic position on the tall one of a hill among the tall valleys of the Arbia and the hilt, to the convergence of important and you attend streets of road communication.? The urbanistic expansion of the city, slow and unequal up to Thousand, it was accented beginning from the sec. XI in concomitance with the great political importance assumed by the free commune in Siena, accompanied always by a florid economic prosperity. The inhabited area him wide on the summit of the hill suiting himself/herself/itself for his/her articulations and assuming so that typical triangular structure that would have preserved for some centuries despite the following amplifications. Under the Physicians, in the sec. XVI, was englobed within the building entourage the area occupied by the fortitude, that at the end of the sec. XVIII would have been turned then into public garden. The most recent building development has taken place toward valley, especially in the principal streets of access in the city. ? Flourishing commercial center and especially financial in age tardomedievale, has preserved partly this function of his, expressed by the activity of some important banking institutes, especially of the Mountain of the Paschis in Siena, one of the piùantichis Italian institutes of credit. Industrial activity is represented by numerous working enterprises in the sectors to feed, chemical-pharmaceutical, elettrotecnico, mechanic, vetrario, graphic-publishing, of the attire, of the mobilio and of the construction materials. The city is university center and arcivescovile. Already center of the Etruschis (of which graves were recovered with furnishings), then Roman colony, Sena Julia, around the sec. The ds. C. it had a proper body of judges. The dominant position in the Tuscan highland preserved her/it from the barbaric invasions favoring the development of it. Occupied by the Longobardis, it was Episcopalian center in the sec. VIII; governed by gastaldi, it became then chief town of a county with the frank conquest. Among the sec. X and XI it strengthened him the power of the bishops which, scalzando the power of the accounts, prepared the advent of the commune. Under bishops Siena's government it started to widen his/her dominion meeting himself/herself/itself with Florence (1141) and already in 1147 he went affirming the secular authority which could replace the government of the bishop with that of the consuls with them it turns replaced (1199) by the podestà. After a brief alliance Siena and Florence were still found in conflict: the senesis suffered to Montalto of the Berardenga (1207) a hard defeat that marked the end of their pretensions on Montepulciano, Montalcino and Poggibonsi. It was successful instead their expansion toward the Maremma where subdued different counties were and, in 1224, Grosseto. In 1228, allied of Pisa and Pistoia, Siena took back against Florence a concluded war with the adverse sentence of the cardinal of Preneste (1235).
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