Contrada della Lupa

GENERAL INFORMATION

HEADQUARTERS: Via Vallerozzi, 63 - Terzo di Camollia

SOCIETY: "Romulus & Remus" - Via Fontenuova, 1

NAME OF THE CONTRADA MEMBERS: Lupaioli

MOTTO: "Et urbis et senae signum et decus"

COAT OF ARMS: field of natural landscape, with a retreating twin Roman she-wolf, topped by an ancient gold crown, with the twins holding a pennon split in black and white; borders composed of silver and red, charged with Savoy crosses.

COLORS: white and black in equal parts lined or arabesqued with orange

SYMBOLIZES: fidelity

PLACES AND REFERENCES

CHURCH AND ORATORY: Oratory of San Rocco

PATRON AND TITLE FESTIVAL: Saint Rocco the Confessor, September

MUSEUM: Via Vallerozzi, 88

FONTANINA: work of Architect Giovanni Barsacchi, with a bronze she-wolf by Emilio Montagnani (1962). It is located at the back of the church of San Rocco, on Via Fontenuova.

RELATIONS AND ORGANIZATION

RELATIONS WITH OTHER CONTRADE:
allies none
enemies Istrice

CORPORATIONS: bakers

MILITARY COMPANIES: San Donato alla Chiesa, Sant'Andrea

HISTORY OF CONTRADA DELLA LUPA

The emblem of the Lupa is derived from an act of fidelity of the inhabitants to Rome, the legendary mother of Siena. It should be noted, however, that the Roman she-wolf, adopted as a symbol since the republican times of Mario, is actually an Etruscan symbol, brought to Rome from Veio after the destruction of that city. The so-called "twins" are instead the result of a Renaissance addition.

The territory of the Contrada was inhabited by personalities of great cultural significance: among them the famous painter Antonio Bazzi, known as "Sodoma", and Sapia Saracini, still remembered today at the entrance of Vallerozzi by a plaque bearing Dante's verses (Purgatorio, Canto XIII).

PALII AND RESULTS

WON PALII: 41 for the Contrada | 38 for the Municipality

PARTICULARITIES

TWINNINGS: Rome