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Contrada di Valdimontone

Via di Valdimontone / Terzo di San Martino (near Porta Romana)·Siena·Italyest. Oratory (SS. Trinità) dates to 1575Red and yellow with white stripes

Ram-of-the-Valley contrada near Porta Romana. The 'Montonaioli'. Historically tailors. Share their richly frescoed SS. Trinità oratory with the medieval confraternity of the same name.

Symbol: crowned rampant ram (montone). Oratory: Santissima Trinità in Via di Valdimontone, shared with the namesake confraternity. Historic guild: tailors.

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