oldest sports society in Siena. Mens Sana Basket participated in the highest level of play in Italy, Lega Basket Serie A, and it has won the national championship eight times, with a streak of seven (2004 and 2007–13). The team host their home games at PalaEstra indoor arena. Like the local football team, the club went through financial issues in 2014, and its place was taken by the new club Mens Sana 1871, currently in the Serie A2 league. The city co-hosted the EuroBasket 1979. Cycling Siena hosts the start and finish of the Strade Bianche, a professional cycling race famous for its historic white gravel roads, called strade bianche or sterrati in Italian. More than of the race is run over dirt roads, usually country lanes and farm tracks twisting through the hills and vineyards of the Chianti region. The finish is on the Piazza del Campo, after a steep and narrow climb on the roughly paved Via Santa Caterina leading into the center of the medieval city. Transport Buses Siena Mobilità was a consortium established in 2005, formed by Tiemme Toscana Mobilità, Busitalia Sita Nord e ByBus, to manage the local public transport in Siena, in its province and regional service to Florence and Arezzo. From 1 January 2018 Siena Mobilità operated by virtue of the bridge contract between the Regione Toscana and the company ONE Scarl. Since 1 November 2021 the public local transport is operated by Autolinee Toscane. Twin towns Siena is twinned with: Avignon, France Concord, North Carolina, US, since 2016 Weimar, Germany, since 1994 Wetzlar, Germany, since 1987 Gallery References Sources A Medieval Italian Commune: Siena under the Nine, 1287–1355 by Professor William M. Bowsky (1982) McIntyre, Anthony Osler. Medieval Tuscany and Umbria (1992) External links Populated places established in the 1st millennium BC Roman sites of Tuscany World Heritage Sites in Italy 1st-millennium BC establishments Capitals of former nations Cities and towns in Tuscany Tuscany