SIENA’S PALIO – Waiting for you each year, on July 2nd and August 16th, from 1283

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man is you, inside your existential experience, where you breathe and see, hear, eat and feel it. Welcome at Palio.

Have you ever seen playing a tambourine during the parades of the Siena Palio? Whatever your answer, we advise you to go to Siena, get to know the colors of its 17 Districts, letting in “Fever grabs” in your heart. In those two days of summer, Piazza del Campo becomes in a running track. In that the track takes place on horseback challenge between le17 Sienese contrade. You can admire the slender jockeys that ride upon horses bareback, but you will remember what you do not see: all of them are training for a full year, for that appointment with a painted banner, the Palio will know http://www.ilpalio.org/ the Standard bearers and Barbareschi (the insiders horses that run the Palio).

You will learn that the Barbero is the horse racing Palio, which Brenna is a bad horse and that Captain is in charge of the Supreme conduzionedel Palio. Looking at the performance of this incredible race, you will learn that Scosso is the name of a riderless horse. The jockey wearing clothes with the colors of his Contrada, but how can you tell which Contrada won by a horse rocked? Keeps his head, you’ll see the colored ribbons, colored as are the contrade: Snail, Owl and Goose, Forest, Tortoise and Caterpillar, Leocorno, Valdimontone and Aquila, Tower, Wave and Giraffe, Nicchio, Lupa and Drago, Porcupine and Panther.