Not only a guidebook, but also a well-organised journey of emotions, a travel notebook inside this city that has become a myth. Various factors have contributed to forming the legend of Siena down through the centuries: historic events, personages, art, the contradas, religion (both supernatural and secular, professed by means of a solid civic conscience). And, no less, its way of being, the very shape of the city that leads to beauty and to perfection.