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    The Palio di Siena (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːljo di ˈsjɛːna]; known locally simply as Il Palio; from Latin pallium) is a horse race held twice each...
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    events that are staged with an eye to visitors and foreign tourists. The Palio di Siena is the only one that has been run without interruption since it started...
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  • countryside. In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose representatives race on horseback in the Palio di Siena, run twice every year...
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    art, museums, medieval cityscape and the Palio, a horse race held twice a year in Piazza del Campo. Siena, like other Tuscan hill towns, was first settled...
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    the 2017 Palio di Siena, a twice-yearly tradition stretching back 600 years, in which representatives of the 17 contradae (districts) of Siena race on...
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    the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia. The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza. The piazza is also the finish...
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  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbaŋka ˈmonte dei ˈpaski di ˈsjɛːna]), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing...
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    Contrada of the Tortoise (category Siena)
    seventeen historic subdivisions of the Tuscan city of Siena. It takes part in the Palio di Siena. The Notice of Violante of Bavaria (1730) determines the...
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  • Palio is a 2015 British documentary film. Filmed in Siena, Italy, the film documents Palio di Siena, the oldest continually run horse race in the world...
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    Pienza, Sinalunga, Trequanda. The most important event in Torrita di Siena is the "Palio dei Somari", a race among donkeys, which is run on Saint Joseph's...
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    Fiat Siena is a subcompact car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1996 to 2022. It is the four-door sedan version of the Fiat Palio, a supermini...
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    Palio di Siena (known locally simply as Il Palio, English: The Palio) is a horse race that is held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena...
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    a historical costume parade in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. It takes place before the famous horse race known as the Palio on the 2nd of July and on August...
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    and are still used in processions such as the corteo storico of the Palio di Siena. From 1931 breeders began to favour selection of animals more suited...
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    the historical costume parade called Corteo Storico that precedes the Palio of Siena. Between one stop and another, in fact, while the representatives of...
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    also used in the Siena sedan, the Palio Weekend station wagon, the Palio Adventure crossover and the Strada light pick-up truck. The Palio badge originated...
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  • known as Bastiano) is a retired Italian Palio jockey, and one of the most notorious competitors in Il Palio Di Siena in the 20th century with a strong rivalry...
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  • Italy), is a retired Italian Palio jockey, and the modern-day record holder for greatest number of wins in the Palio di Siena with 14 victories between 1965...
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    2024, l'ordine di uscita di cantanti e ospiti stasera". Sky TG24 (in Italian). Sky Italia. 7 February 2024. Retrieved 7 February 2024. Di Grazia, Ida (7...
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  • The Palio di Legnano (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːljo di leɲˈɲaːno]; known locally simply as Il Palio) is a traditional event generally held on the last...
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  • Luigi Bruschelli (category Sportspeople from Siena)
    December 1968, Siena, Italy; known as "Trecciolino" or "Gigi") is an Italian jockey, and is the most successful active jockey in the Palio di Siena with 13 wins...
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    Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Il Palio di Siena tra luci e ombre" (in Italian). June 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2022. "Siena: Palio e non solo" (in Italian). Retrieved...
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    October 2022. "Siena: Palio e non solo" (in Italian). Retrieved 4 April 2022. "The Palio Horse Race - All the victories at the Palio di Siena from 1633 to...
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  • Associazione Calcio Robur Siena 1904, commonly referred to as Siena, is an Italian football club based in Siena, Tuscany. The club was re-incorporated...
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  • Quantum of Solace (category Films set in Siena)
    marble quarry in Carrara, and a recreation of the Palio di Siena at the Piazza del Campo in Siena. 1,000 extras were hired for a scene where Bond emerges...
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  • hymn to the city of Siena, and is popularly sung at sporting events like those of the Palio di Siena and of the local Robur Siena football club. On 12–13...
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  • traditional cultural events linked to quartieri: a notable case is the Palio di Siena. Only in a few Italian cities, like in Florence and Bologna, a quartiere...
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    The Venice Biennale (/ˌbiːɛˈnɑːleɪ, -li/; Italian: La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by...
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    Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale")...
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    Virginia Tacci (category People from Siena)
    famous horse race in Siena. Tacci rode on 15 August 1581 in the challenging race that was the predecessor of today's Palio di Siena. As a 15-year-old girl...
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