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The Palio di Siena (Italian: [ˈpaːljo di ˈsjɛːna]; known locally simply as Il Palio; from Latin pallium) is a horse race held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade , or city wards, in a tradition dating back ...
The contrada ' s museum is home to the oldest surviving Palio di Siena banner (also called a palio), which dates from 1719. Aquila ' s patron saint is La Vergine (the name of the Most Holy Maria). Her titulary festival is celebrated on 8 September. They are allied to the Civetta (Owl) and Drago (Dragon) contrade. They have been opposed to the ...
Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. During the Middle Ages, Siena was a wealthy self-governing city-state in competition with its neighbor Florence. Taxes were collected to start funding the long ...
The winners of the 2024 Siena International Photo Awards have been announced. Once again, we are excited to share a selection of the best images captured by photographers from around the globe.As ...
The Palio di Siena in July 2010. The Palio di Siena is the only one that has been run without interruption since it started in the 1630s and is definitely the most famous all over the world. Its historical origins are documented since 1239 even though the version seen today was the final evolution of races held from the second half of the 16th ...
Credit - Top row: Marco Di Marco—AP; Sofiia Gatilova—Reuters; Leo Correa–AP; Amr Alfiky—Reuters; John Moore—Getty Images; Bottom row: Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images; Jerome Brouillet ...
Corteo storico (Palio di Siena) (Wikipedia in Italian) Alan Dundes, Alessandro Falassi. La terra in Piazza: an interpretation of the Palio of Siena. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1975. ISBN 0-520-04771-0; Alan Dundes, Alessandro Falassi, foto di Gigi Lusini. La terra in piazza. Antropologia del Palio, trad. italiana. Siena, Nuova ...
The first victory that the Tartuca is credited with is the one in the Palio dedicated to Our Lady of Provenzano on August 15, 1633: this Palio is not listed by the City in the Roll of Victories of the Palio of Siena, although the City officially recognized it on February 14, 1896. [47]