A contrada (plural: contrade) is generally a district within the Italian countryside. In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose...
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August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade, or city wards...
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Siena Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Siena) is a medieval church in Siena, Italy, dedicated from its earliest days as a Roman Catholic Marian church, and...
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significant Mediaeval and Renaissance painters were born and worked in Siena, among them Duccio di Buoninsegna, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Sassetta...
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Contrada of the Tortoise (category Siena)
of Siena. It takes part in the Palio di Siena. The Notice of Violante of Bavaria (1730) determines the territorial division of the seventeen Contrade of...
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The Republic of Siena (Italian: Repubblica di Siena, Latin: Respublica Senensis) was a historic state consisting of the city of Siena and its surrounding...
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Corteo Storico (redirect from Corteo storico (Palio di Siena))
institutions, customs and greatness of the Republic of Siena. Special attention is given to the Contrade whose participants form the main part of the parade...
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Palio delle Contrade, in Gonfalone di Arpino. Palio delle Contrade of Corchiano, First Sunday in August Palio delle Contrade of Allumiere Palio di San Ciro...
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different Contrade. Gerald Parsons, 2004, Siena, Civil Religion, and the Sienese Ashgate Press ISBN 0-7546-1516-2, page 21 Visitor's guide to Siena and San...
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1463 – Palazzo Piccolomini-delle Papesse built. 1472 Monte dei Paschi di Siena founded. Palazzo Spannocchi built (approximate date). 1478 - The Pazzi...
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Canto della Verbena (redirect from E mentre Siena dorme)
taunt towards a rival contrade that has just been defeated ("purged"). @valemercurii (12 March 2020). "People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song...
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Italian Palio jockey, and one of the most notorious competitors in Il Palio Di Siena in the 20th century with a strong rivalry with another rider, Andrea Degortes...
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relative alla riconciliazione delle Contrade Tartuca e Chiocciola avvenuta il 7 novembre 1847, Tipografia dell’Ancoea, Siena, 1847. Contrada della Tartuca;...
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Bassano del Grappa (category Domini di Terraferma)
groups of houses) also called contrade: there are thus contrade within contrade. Besides, some places known as contrade exist also within other neighbourhoods...
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event was named Sagra del Carroccio. Legnano is subdivided into eight contrade, each of which takes part both in the medieval pageant and in the horse...
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Telethon Race cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 Palio di Siena "Contrade | Bravio delle Botti di Montepulciano". www.braviodellebotti.com. Retrieved 2015-08-31...
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March of the Palio (category Siena)
Grassi, Le Contrade di Siena e le loro feste - Il Palio attuale, Siena, Edizioni Periccioli, 1972. Sergio Profeti, Il segreto della mossa, Siena, Edizioni...
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Palio di Siena with 14 victories between 1965 and 1992. 2 July 1965 - winning for Contrade Dell' Aquila 16 August 1968 - winning for Contrade Dell' Oca...
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and pastries Panpepato "Panforte". epicurious. "Storia - History (Fiore di Siena)" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-08-21. "I dolci senesi tra storia e leggenda" (PDF)...
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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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in Italy, is divided. They participate annually in the Palio di Legnano. The eight contrade of Legnano, whose mottos were introduced in 1955, are: Contrada...
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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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into four contrade (quarters) which take part in a palio held every 8 September. The palio was raced for the first time in 1402. The contrade are: Borgo...
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Montalcino (category Municipalities of the Province of Siena)
Montalcino is a hill town and comune in the province of Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. The town is located to the west of Pienza, close to the Crete Senesi...
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Bernardino Capitelli (category Painters from Siena)
p. 228. Internet Archive I carri delle sei contrade, che comparuero splendidamente in teatro alla luce di ser.o Sole, ue[n]gono hora p[er] lor disauentura...
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Corsica is named Torre.co, website Torre (name) Torre, one of 17 contrade of Siena Torres (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Meduna (section Castello di Meduna)
collezione gentilizia. Il fondo Montereale Mantica (PDF). Dottorato di Ricerca. Università di Siena. pp. 82 (footnote 476), 286 (25.17.1), 453 (58.19), 572 (77...
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Montisi (section The contrade)
the water supply, of San Giovanni d'Asso. Montisi is divided into four contrade: Castello, or the area of the medieval village. The colors of its flag...
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Meacci and D. Joni, Designs for the Carriage of the Palio di Siena, 1928, with allegories of the contrade of Siena. (at ilpalio.org), Palio di Siena...
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of the territory now belonging to the contrade of Sant'Ambrogio and San Magno (between the quartier of "Costa di San Giorgio" and the Olona, a steep slope...
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