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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 Palio of Districts of Trento (in Italian: Il palio delle Contrade di Trento) is a celebration in remembrance of the Battle of Calliano (1487) and takes place every year in September in the city of Trento, the capital of Trentino in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, a region of Northern Italy.
The Palio di Legnano (Italian: [ˈpaːljo di leɲˈɲaːno]; known locally simply as Il Palio) is a traditional event generally held on the last Sunday of May in the city of Legnano, Italy, to recall the Battle of Legnano held on 29 May 1176 by the Lombard League and the Holy Roman Empire of Frederick Barbarossa. [1]
Il Palio di Legnano : Sagra del Carroccio e Palio delle Contrade nella storia e nella vita della città [The Palio of Legnano: Sagra del Carroccio and Palio delle Contrade in the history and life of the city] (in Italian). Banca di Legnano. D'Ilario, Giorgio; Gianazza, Egidio; Marinoni, Augusto; Turri, Marco (1984).
The ancient course of the Palio, from an 18th-century engraving. The ancient church of San Lazzaro and the cippo del pilone (stone pylon - the starting point of the race) are visible in the background; San Secondo of Asti, to whom the race is dedicated, is in the center, and in the foreground two competitors are about to enter the city through the gate of San Pietro.
Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically, they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages and thus often involve horse racing , archery , jousting ...
On a large horse (called the "soprallasso") escorted by a groom, is the jockey in ceremonial dress, followed the horse which is racing. Contradas participating in the Palio enter the order determined by the drawn lots. A double row of six little pages bearing the symbolic garlands, form division with the Contrade excluded from this Palio.
Stadio Giovanni Mari during Palio di Legnano 2013. The plant, built near the plants of the engineering company Franco Tosi inspired by similar plants built in England, [2] was inaugurated on 2 October 1921 [3] with a ceremony that foresaw an athletics event organized by the Legnano Gymnastics which lasted from 8.30 am to 5 pm. [3]