The Palio is not an event resurrected and organized for tourist purposes: it is the life of the Sienese people over time and in its different aspects and feelings.
It has remote origins with some regulations still valid today from 1644, the year in which the first palio with horses was run, as it still happens, in continuity never interrupted.
The territory of the City is divided into seventeen Contradas with borders established in 1729 by the Notice of Violante of Bavaria, Governor of the City.
The event is held twice a year: July 2nd and August 16th.
ph: Roberto Vicario
It has remote origins with some regulations still valid today from 1644, the year in which the first palio with horses was run, as it still happens, in continuity never interrupted.
The territory of the City is divided into seventeen Contradas with borders established in 1729 by the Notice of Violante of Bavaria, Governor of the City.
The event is held twice a year: July 2nd and August 16th.
ph: Roberto Vicario
