Cinta Senese

The Cinta Senese (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃinta seˈneːze; -eːse]) is a breed of domestic pig from the province of Siena, in Tuscany, central Italy.

[3] The Cinta Senese is one of the six autochthonous pig breeds recognised by the Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali, the Italian ministry of agriculture and forestry.

The population fell drastically after the Second World War, almost to the point of extinction, and the herdbook was discontinued in the 1960s.

Following a recent recovery in numbers, the herdbook was re-opened in 1997,[5][6] and is kept by the Associazione Nazionale Allevatori Suini, the Italian national association of pig breeders.

The population remains low: at the end of 2007 it was 2867;[5] the conservation status of the breed was listed as "endangered" by the FAO in the same year.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti , Effetti del buon governo in campagna , 1338–39, in the Palazzo Pubblico , Siena; detail, showing among other things a Cinta Senese pig
Cinta Senese piglets