August Palio canceled
Today, the city council of Siena decided to cancel the Palio of August 16, just as last year, because of the pandemic. It will be ridden in 2022. The only way to see horses...
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Palio canceled in July, low probability of the August Palio
Yesterday afternoon, Mayor De Mossi proposed a resolution in the city council to cancel the Palio of July 2 due to the restrictive measures that the pandemic entails and which means that the state...
Palio’s 2021 postponed to dates to be determined
The decision was made after this morning’s meeting in the Italo Calvino room of Santa Maria della Scala between Mayor De Mossi, captains and Priors of the 17 contrade. Pending a new evaluation of...
Addio Brio
On Monday 17 May Andrea Mari detto Brio died in a car accident in Bolgheri. He was 43 years old and was one of the protagonists of the Palio. He participated in 32 Palio...
Emanuele Montomoli: “In 2021 it will be very difficult to ride the two traditional Palios”
In recent days, scientist Emanuele Montomoli, vaccine expert and CEO of Vismederi, was interviewed in the Canale 3 Toscana program “Brandano – le voci della Città”. Among the many questions, he was also asked...
Official: Palios 2020 canceled
This afternoon, around 12 o’clock, a meeting was scheduled to decide on the 2020 Palios. The mayor, the Priors, the dean and vice dean of the captains were present. On April 1st they decided...
Palio 2020: new dates are August 22 and September 26, although the final decision will be made between May 10 and May 15
Yesterday, April 1, the mayor, the rettore and the magistrato delle contrade, the 17 priors as well as the deans and vice deans of the captains gathered at the town hall in the Sala...
Palio 2020: on the way to procrastination?
Yesterday, March 25, Mayor De Mossi addressed the press. Among other things, he spoke about the Palio. First, he emphasized that at a time like this, people’s health is the most important thing. Everything...
Status thepalio.eu after 6 months
Six months ago we registered www.thepalio.eu. As promised we started translating pages from our main and Dutch site www.palio.be in English. At the moment 50 pages were made (or translated) in English. As we...
Coming soon
In 2002 www.palio.be was founded. More than 17 years later we are more than a reference about the Palio di Siena for the Dutch speaking Palio-community. During the years we noticed a growing interest...
