Palio 2023. Siena, Italy

Palio 2023. Siena, Italy. 16 August 2023.
The Palio di Siena (known locally simply as Il Palio; from Latin pallium) is a horse race held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade, or city wards. The Palio held on 2 July is named Palio di Provenzano, in honour of the Madonna of Provenzano, a Marian devotion particular to Siena which developed around an icon from the Terzo Camollia area of the city. The Palio held on 16 August is named Palio dell'Assunta, in honour of the Assumption of Mary.
The race itself, in which the jockeys ride bareback, circles the Piazza del Campo, on which a thick layer of earth has been laid. The race is run for three laps of the piazza and usually lasts no more than 90 seconds. It is common for a few of the jockeys to be thrown off their horses while making the treacherous turns in the piazza, and indeed, it is not unusual to see riderless horses finishing the race. A horse is not required to have a rider to win the race.
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The Palio of 2 July begins the last sunday (07.00 p.m.) of may with flags show at he windows of Guildhall Palace in Campo Square. The Palio of 16 August begins the first sunday (07:00 p.m.) after 2 of July with flags show al the windows of Guildhall Palace in Campo Square. This year sunday 26 of may and sunday 7 of july.