In the center of Siena, in via dei Porrione you open an arch ....
.......... bearing a large tabernacle with "The Virgin and Child, St. Anthony Abbot and St. Martin" by Vittorio Guidi probably rebuilt in the '30s on an earlier fresco of Ventura Salimbeni. The arch marks the start of Via del Rialto. This road unlike the other streets of the ghetto does not descend into Salicotto, because after a big curve on the left, taking a course almost parallel to the path of Porrione and maintained at a level lower than this, after seeing depart on the right alley tail and after that of the cross Vannelli, comes up to the clearing below the Piazzetta di San Giusto. Probably the term Rialto is explained by the fact that the location of this street (Rio but without course) is higher than the path of all other surrounding streets. Another interpretation is that the Rialto is about to rise to that place or part in relief and then raised above a flat surface; Rialto short stems from a cross between the noun and the adjective "high-rise. In the past the road called Via Re Alto. This name was interpreted by Macchi and lily of the King Street South on the basis of news derived from the historical Jugurtha Tomasi. They did trace the origin of place names at some Gallori Pietro De 'Grandi di Siena which apparently was tall and immensely rich, as owner of silver mines. It tells the lilies of the places the miners, who were wont to call their master "High King", a tower built in his honor near San Martino (the Tower of the Syrians Galli) is headed King High, the first houses of the district about of his wife. From the name of the street or neighborhood took the name of the Society Military Rialto, whose territory from 1729 belongs to the Contrada della Torre, had a sign bearing a white list blue-trimmed red lion and three gold lilies. The union of the people of Rialto company with the people of the nearby countryside of San Giusto and Spadaforte formed in the first half of the sixteenth century, a district with the name and symbol of the Viper. Prior to the reorganization of the district of Via Rialto was united with the square of San Giusto, so called from a small church in 1300 that was home to a military company separate from a banner with red and white lists to order and above the figure of a shield. The church of San Giusto served as a spur to the group of houses under the road to San Martin, who has left the Golden Lane and on the right that of Gallipoli. The Falaschi writes that the church existed as early as 1188: it was the parish of the district of Rialto and served as the art of oratory applause that included the carders, workers employed to refine and clean the wool by means of special combs or machines hooked.