page_title: Timeline of Siena
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Siena / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: Nazi railroad yards at Siena are knocked out. On the alternate line from Pisa and Florence south to Rome, the Siena yards were blasted by Mediterranean Allied Air Force Bombers. Within two months "Operation Strangle" had smashed all large and medium sized railyards at Rome, Rimini, Ancona, Pisa, Arezzo, Foligno, Terni, and Viterbo
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
context_section_description: 1901 – Population: 25,539.
  1904 – Società Studio e Divertimento formed.
  1911 – Population: 41,673.
  1923 – Stadio Artemio Franchi – Montepaschi Arena opens.
  1932
  Accademia Musicale Chigiana founded.
  Pinacoteca Nazionale inaugurated.
  1935 – Siena railway station opens.
  1944 – Bombing by Allies.
  1959 – Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati (library) active.
  1976 – Palasport Mens Sana arena opens.
  1995 – Santa Maria della Scala museum opens.
caption: Allied bombing of Nazi railyard, Siena, c. 1944
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