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Palio di Siena

Italy cultural July – August

The Palio di Siena is a historic bareback horse race held twice each summer in Siena's shell-shaped Piazza del Campo, where the city's contrade (districts) compete in a fierce, centuries-old rivalry amid pageantry and medieval tradition.

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