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Stories Set in Siena
Twice a year Siena stops being a museum and becomes a racetrack: the Palio horse race has run around its shell-shaped square since the 1600s, ward against ward. That intensity seeps into everything filmed here. Palio documents the real thing; The Winds of War passed through. Open Siena on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 9 books and 1 movie set in Siena.
The Winds of War
Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation.Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well…
Palio
Taking bribes and making deals is as essential as being a good rider in the Palio the world’s oldest horse race. Giovanni a young jockey is up to the challenge when he faces his former mentor on the track. What ensues…
Juliet
Juliet, an ambitious, utterly engaging historical novel on the scale of The Thirteenth Tale and The Birth of Venus, follows a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s…
Cascade
What if you not only fell back through time...but fell in love, too?Gabi knows she's left her heart in the fourteenth century, and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their…
The Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena experienced her first mystical experience when she was only six years old, finding herself able to view guardian angels as clearly as she could see the people they protected. She became a…
The Italian Party
A delicious and sharply funny page-turner about "innocent" Americans abroad in 1950s Siena, Italy. Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each…
Journey by Moonlight
A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train,…
Saffy's Angel
The four Casson children, whose mother, Eve, is a fine-arts painter, have all been given the names of paint colors. Cadmium (Caddy), is the eldest; then Saffron (Saffy); Indigo, the only boy; and Rose, the youngest.…
Gaudenzia, Pride of the Palio
A story, based on real events, about a boy and a half-Arabian mare who enter the Palio, an annual race in Siena, Italy, with all the pageantry of a medieval contest.
Zero Alternative
Framed.Hunted. Betrayed.Scott Walker is a fugitive from the quicksands of Finance, with one card to play - DeepShare, a silicon oracle coveted by billionaires, hitmen and hackers. As he fights for survival and…
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