Siena streets with flags flying

Il Palio Di Siena

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August 16th 2012
Il Palio Di siena is the most disorganised, hectic, amazing, thrilling, confusing and wonderful event we have ever been to. Everyone should try to get to this festival because words cannot even begin to describe the emotions and experience of being here.The Italian calendar revolves around festivals and in Siena, their lives revolve around il Palio. Palio is a banner that each of the regions compe ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more