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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 ...
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 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 ...
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, lo spazio delle contrade: i confini urbani del Palio, delimitazioni settecentesche e nuove contese territoriali. Siena: Pacini. Cecchini, Giovanni; Dario Neri (1958). Il palio di Siena. Siena: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. [ISBN unspecified] Filiani, Roberto (2000). "Daccelo!" – Cronache, personaggi e numeri di un secolo di palio.
The March of the Palio was composed by Pietro Formichi in 1880 for the municipal band of the city of Siena, which he then conducted jointly with the annexed music school. [1] From a musical point of view it is a 2/4 composition for fanfare , or for band formations with exclusively brass instruments , originally created without a sung accompaniment.
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. [168] The earliest record, cited by Guglielmo Ventura, [169] dates from the third quarter of the 13th century. It has taken ...
Reproduction of the carroccio of Siena during the Palio 2006. In the Palio di Siena (2 July – 16 August) the carroccio, which parades with the black-and-white sock of the municipality, carries the Palio (also known as "cencio"), or a painted silk drapery, prize of the horse race (called also "carriera") which closes the event