For the Palio there is a horse and rider from each Siena district, or contrada. There are 17 and each contrada has a fountain of it's mascot. I'm trying to take a picture of each fountain, I'll post the pictures here...
Apparently the unicorn's rival is the owl... not the dragon... weird.

Contrada
map

Mine, the contrada del leocorno

contrada della torre

the condra della tartuca

The contrada dell'Aquila
the contrada di Valdimontone
the seashell (not a fountain but a huge church)
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