“For the Sienese, here’s one’s life story: You’re born…there’s the Palio…and then you die.” While the race itself lasts just 90 seconds, it’s preceded by days of festivities. As the big day approaches ...

Siena, an Italian hill town just south of Florence, offers Italy’s greatest medieval city experience, at its most thrilling during its world-famous horse race, Palio di Siena. The action takes place ...

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Il Palio, which dates back to the mid-1600s, takes place twice each summer in the Tuscan city of Siena. 10 jockeys ride bareback around a makeshift race course set up in the city's central square in a ...

ROME (Reuters) - 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 ...

Start of the Palio race, 2006, photo by Roberto Vicario Source: Roberto Vicario/used with permission The Palio, held last week in Siena, Italy, is a wild, bareback horse race dating back to the 13th ...

Since the mid-1600s, 10 riders have hurtled bareback around Siena, Italy's shell-shaped central square in a desperate bid to win the Palio, a silk banner depicting the Madonna and child.