(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 18 - The Valdimontone contrada won the Palio di Siena Saturday night with veteran jockey Giuseppe Zedde aka Gingillo leading form start to finish of the famed medieval bareback ...

Jockeys ride their horses in the iconic Palio di Siena race, held twice a year. Photo by Carlo BRESSAN / AFP The renowned Palio di Siena horse race returns on Saturday, August 17th, with jockeys ...

Thousands of spectators gathered in the Tuscan city of Siena for a traditional bareback horse race around the main square. The Palio di Siena has been held in the Piazza del Campo in the centre of the ...

The " cencio". What could be a derogatory term, a rag, a piece of cloth, for the Sienese is the dream of a lifetime. A dream that tonight, after yesterday's postponement due to bad weather, can ...

It’s perhaps Italy’s most famous annual sporting event. But Siena’s Palio is as much about pageantry, civic identity and Sienese pride as it is about a bareback horse race that lasts, on average, just ...

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This July, the world-famous Palio di Siena returns — also known as the Palio di Provenzano. Held every year on 2 July in Piazza del Campo, this iconic bareback horse race draws thousands of spectators ...

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