The
she-wolf with the suckling twins is a symbol of Rome, but it was
borrowed by the old city-state of Siena as a means of promoting the city's standing among the other city-states in Italy. You'll find this symbol all over Siena, where legend has it that the son of Senius, the son of Remus (one of the founding brothers of Rome). The leaders of Siena believed that by associating with Rome that the city would have more legitmacy than its rivals. The history is a bit more complicated than that, but that's the jist of it.
The she-wolf with the suckling twins is a symbol of Rome, but it was borrowed by the old city-state of Siena as a means of promoting the city's standing among the other city-states in Italy. You'll find this symbol all over Siena, where legend has it that the son of Senius, the son of Remus (one of the founding brothers of Rome). The leaders of Siena believed that by associating with Rome that the city would have more legitmacy than its rivals. The history is a bit more complicated than that, but that's the jist of it.
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