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The Sources are located within one of the many green spaces inside the city walls: the Follonica Valley which takes its name from its sources. To reach them there is no other way than to make a nice and long walk on a dirt road, which starts from today's gardens of the Contrada del Leocorno.
The year of their construction is not certain, but we know, through documents, the dates of payments for the expansion costs made by the Municipality itself which date back to 1226.
The Sources were, and perhaps still are today, the most beautiful in the city, but due to the plague that struck Siena, in that period and their distance from the historical center, they diminished the public utility that they had had until then , as their structure and organization were based on a well-defined criterion, namely:
starting from the highest part there was the fontino where people drew water to drink, lower there was the part where the animals drank, the wash-houses and lastly there was a canal where all the waste water flowed.
From the plague onwards, the Sources were submerged by the landslides of the gardens and gardens above owned by the convent of San Giovanni Battista. Over the centuries they were donated to the friars of Santo Spirito until 1903 when the municipality ordered their restoration.
Today we can see them in all their beauty, as they have been brought to light thanks to the commitment of the Municipality and that of the Contrada del Leocorno.
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