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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 she-wolf of this contrada refers to the legend that Siena was founded by Senius and Aschius, the sons of Remus, who were raised by a wolf. Because of this, Lupa ' s sister city is Rome. The Lupa museum's prize exhibit is a photograph of Giuseppe Garibaldi, which he donated to the contrada on its victory in the Palio di Siena of 1867.
The Palio di Siena is a traditional medieval horse race run around the Piazza del Campo twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August. The event is attended by large crowds, and is widely televised. The event is attended by large crowds, and is widely televised.
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.
Siena dal dolce idioma e dall'amato ostello: Siena, tu sei di Roma specchio gentile e bello: March of the Palio (English translation) May the faith shrill! May the honor be armed and win of you, sweet flower, gentle Siena! A thousand banners sparkle in the sun, waving white with black color, the commanders with high crests pass! Now the value ...
Façade. Santa Maria in Provenzano, or the Insigne Collegiata di Santa Maria in Provenzano, is a late-Renaissance-Baroque style, Roman Catholic, collegiate church in Piazza Provenzano Salvani, in the Terza Camollia, just southwest of the basilica of San Francesco, in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.