ROCKY'S ITALY: Siena - The Palio

Twice a year, on July 2 and August 16, the city of Siena transforms its main medieval square into an arena of unbridled fury. Ten bareback horses and their respective jockeys race three laps at breakneck speed around a dirt-covered piazza that is filled with thirty thousand people! That is the Palio, and for the past seven centuries winning it has been the most important objective of every Sienese citizen.

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[DaedricDiablo]

this chucklehead thinks it's ok to charge people 525 dollars PER person for a tour at a museum. talk about classist