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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 Siena, often described as the toughest horse race in the world, will not be run this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the mayor of the Tuscan city said on Thursday. The ...
Horse race and Archery contest; Palio dei 10 Comuni del Montagnanese, ... Il Palio di Somma Vesuviana", second Sunday in September [1] "Palio del casale", ...
The Palio di Asti (or Palio Astese in its most archaic nomenclature) is a traditional Italian festival of medieval origin that culminates with a bareback horse race. The race has been run each year since the 13th century. [1] The earliest record, cited by Guglielmo Ventura, [2] dates from the third quarter of the 13th century. It has taken ...
A contrada (plural: contrade) is generally a district within the Italian countryside.In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose representatives race on horseback in the Palio di Siena, run twice every year in July and August. [1]
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]
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.
after 1581), was an Italian equestrian who was the first woman to ride in a famous horse race in Siena. [1] Horse and jockey turning a bend of the race course at Piazza del Campo. Tacci rode on 15 August 1581 [2] in the challenging race that was the predecessor of today's Palio di Siena. As a 15-year-old girl, she came to be regarded as a role ...