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Perhaps not everyone knows about the birth of the emblem of the "Gallo nero", which still represents the wine produced in the region is famous throughout the world. Has vanished in a curious legend. In

it tells a story that shows how at the start of the thirteenth century the rivalry between the two republics of Florence and Siena were particularly keen.

The dispute was due to the decision of what were the boundaries between the two republics, and the solution was found devising a race between two riders, one who was from Florence, Siena and the other to the point where d ' meeting was to represent the limit of two territories.

Departure time was set at the first cock crow.

The Florentines, however, smarter than their rivals, they used the alarm for a black cock fully taken on an empty stomach, and launched its appeal long before dawn, perhaps deceived by the light of a candle lit on purpose.

Thus the Florentine knight, party in advance, covered a greater distance, won in his republic's major rival lands. The place where the two met is still known as the Cross of Fiorentina.

So the poor rooster became the emblem of the Chianti.

Indeed, centuries later, Vasari chose, with Bacchus, to represent this region in a fresco on the ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

few years ago, Gallo has created an artistic bronze, nearly three meters high, made by prof. Bino Bini, creator of prestigious sculptures whose subject animals than with humans living on earth and who, with their individual instincts, they express a great character and a strong attachment to life.

The Rooster is located in the territory of Greve in Chianti to remember this famous legend of the two brave knights and birth as the emblem of the Gallo Nero


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