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Unlike the brute stony strength of Florence's Palazzo della Signoria, in Siena brick walls gently bend to embrace the amphitheatre-shaped Piazza del Campo which it faces. Thin marble columns supporting Gothic arches decorate the windows. An astonishingly tall bell tower - clearly surpassing the height of the civic tower of their rival city Florence - extends from the left wing of the building. A later chapel beneath the tower extends out into the public square and indicates the fusion of Church and state in this city dedicated to the Virgin.
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