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contrade are 17, but only 10 run the Racing, therefore beyond to the 7
that has not run the previous time, they come some draw others three
and this draw, than is carried out the last Sunday of May and the
first Sunday after the Palio of July, marks the beginning of the
manifestation. Three days before the race a fundamental ceremony
happens, "the draft", with which to every contrada it comes
assigned by means of draw a horse between the 10 chosen ones after the
batteries. It's the most important moment: a good horse can be
decisive: the horses that run in public square are often crossbread,
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In
the previous night the race, prepares the great propitiatory supper
where is sung and it is drunk a toast, but also are stipulated the
secrets pacts between the districts, work of the captain and of "mangini",
with the scope to gain the Palio, but also not to make to win it to
the district you avail again. The day of the Palio, after
"provaccia" the final one, the run climate is made stiff
and, when the great bell of the tower gives marks them and the young
people of the "appearance" wear their splendid customs, it
can be detect anywhere. In an excited atmosphere, every district that
it will run on the Field it makes to bless the horse; it is a moment
not to lose; the "corrector" gives
its blessing to the horse and to the jockey and dismisses
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him
with the ritual word "Go and go back winner!". Then vent to
the excitation with roll of drum, the fluttering of the flags, between
one more and more large crowd. The wait always grows more during the
"historical walk" that precedes the Palio; gradually all the
the contrade parade in the theirs colourful customs and, finally,
enter the Carroccio, haul from four horses of chianina race , carry
the squad of the the Palio "il cencio" greet from thousands
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After
a wait that seems interminable, the horses exit from the "entrone"
of the Public Palace and they set off, between shouts and applauses,
to the departure hemps. The departure ("the movement") is a
fundamental moment; the order of entrance between the hemps is secret
and comes revealed movement-man at the moment of the way. The first
nine horses enter one after the other while the emotion grips the
throat: a good place to the "movement" can want to say the
Victoria! Is not infrequent the case that the horses for the
excitation of the jockeys and for the tension that reigns around to
the movement, become frisky and forces to repeat more times the
departure. The moment of this last one is chosen from the tenth one
district that it leave "of run-up" and only one then falls
the large rope that withholds the horses. These release to incredible
speed, with the jockeys attack you to the neck, in an unbridled gallop.
The three turns of track come completed approximately in a minute and
means an incredible speed a lot that who assists for before the time
to the Palio find it hard to make out. Before still that the blow of
squib decree the end of the race, the district winners enter in track
and run to take in delivery "cencio" to the outcry
"daccelo, daccelo!". It's a large one jubilation of flags,
because the winners joins in the district of the friends, while it is
not rare that in the meantime an other jockey collects the
appreciations of the people of district hit.
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Game
of Bridge of Pisa |
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In
the last Sunday of June, Game of the Bridge comes disputed on the
Means Bridge: to the term of along parade of figuring in custom, the
two "Parts" of Tramontana and Mezzogiorno compete against to
the victory, pushing itself in the adverse field a heavy undercarriage
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Game
of the Bridge is a rievocation of historical manifestation that is
articulated in two distinguished moments but equally significant:il
Historical Parade on the Lungarni, rising of much imposing military
parade, and the battle, acclimatized on the Ponte di Mezzo bridge,
where the squares of the quarters pertaining to the two city factions
you avail again damage tries of the respective physicis power, in a
competitive and fascinating atmosphere.Some sources wants to make to
go back the origins of the Game to the classic ancient time. Not
turning out sure such hypotheses, are thought that it has had origin
from the local transformation of Game of the Mazzascudo, than,
eleventh to the thirteenth century came played as a simulated battle
in the ancient Public square of the Piazza degli Anziani, today Piazza
dei Cavalieri.
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Historic
regatta of the Ancient seafaring republics |
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From 1956 the dispute the Regatta of the Ancient
Republics Marinare between the crews of the cities of Amalfi, Genoa,
Pisa and Venice. The manifestation, devised with promotional and
tourist purposes, more recalls the pomp of the events meant you of the
life of the four Seafaring Republics. The first official edition was
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the
first July of this year. From then every year the challenge comes
repropose, to turn, in waters of the sea to Amalfi and Genoa, of the
Arno in Pisa and of the lagoon to Venice.
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Luminara
of San Ranieri on Pisa |
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On
the Lungarni of Pisa every year is renewed, to the nightfall of the 16
june, the charm of the Luminara of San Ranieri. In fact, for ancient
tradition, the people of Pisa are usual to celebrate with this
singular lighting system to wax the patron sant festivity of the 17
june. They are approximately seventy thousand small light that for
every edition they come meticulously placed in glasies of diaphanous
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paintings
of white man (in jargon: "linen"), models to you so as to to
exalt the shapes of the palaces, the bridges, the churches and the
towers that show oneself on the embankment of Arno.
Only exceptional appendix regarding this scene is the Hanging Tower,
illuminated equally archaically with frying pans to oil, placed also
on the crene of walls city, in the feature that encloses the Public
square of the Miracles
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| Fair
of Saracino |
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The
Fair of Saracino is a knightly game, that the evolution of an exercise
of military training sinks its roots in the Middle Age. It's a
simulation of the war crash, saw a nozzle knight armed to face an
independent one like to the enemy the Christian West: the Arab, the
unfaithfull, the Saracino exactly. In the Middle Age society
merry-go-rounds and tournaments they were the means with which the
appreciate events were celebrated more.
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About
seen tournaments and merry-go-rounds in earth of Arezzo Dante
Alighieri speaks express, to the beginning of XXII the song of Hell,
in some celebrates tercets. About games with nozzles (hastiludia),
carried out in city in order to celebrate the happy outcome of a
diplomatic mission in earth of France, it is spoken instead in two
letters addressed to the Avignonese Curia in November 1331 from the
Tarlati, getlteman of Arezzo.
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| Thrush
festival of Montalcino |
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Thrush
festival - organized historical folkloristic Manifestation from the
E.P.A.S.T. and from the Quarters: Borghetto - Pianello - Wrinkle -
Suffering. - historical Corteo, dance of the trescone for the city
ways.
In the afternoon, to the Field, contest of shooting with líarco
between the archers representatives the quarters for líassegnazione
of the silver arrow. Initiatives organized collaterals from the
Quarters and Associations.
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| Soccer
in custom in Florence |
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Today
in the prestigious premises of the Palace of Guelfa Part, where it is
still breathed, without to become of perhaps very account, particular
atmosfear, it has center Historical Soccer Fiorentino, institution
that perpetual the use of ancient traditionally to play to the
football legacy to the city life.
Indeed, as the reports hand on us, soccer is a game of ball to which,
from remote times, two formations of young attempts participated to
try to make to pass, beyond the final marking out of the opposing
field, a rag football made or composed of a covering filled up of hay,
straw, hats and piume or, in the greater part of the cases, from one
blister of animals swollen air and covered of sewn skin to segments in
order to gain of roundness.
According to ancient testimonies "the game of soccer" is
been born "on the river of Arno" and after centuries it is
only trasmigrate on that one of the Tamigi where, changed the name in
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rules,
have achieved that reputation, today, universal recognized.
Fiorentino Soccer , said also "soccer in custom" or
"soccer in livery", is a game that sinks its roots in remote
times, the first Italian dictionary of 1612, of the Academics of the
Bran, confirms the thesis supplying the following definition:
"... the name of a game, just and ancient is soccer also of the
city of Florence, like battles ordered, passed from Greek to Latin.
Therefore ancient game "just c" of Florence the whose
origins, remotest, go then but tried before from the Greeks and from
the Latins.
Soccer fiorentino was not other that one of the many ways in order to
cheer the self-confident youth, happy for playing with that spherical
body of several largenesses, that we know to have been used in all the
parts of the world. In the historic Greece came commonly carried out
ludiche recreations with the ball, organizing contests from the names
of "Feninda", "Episciro", and, more known, than
"Sferomachia" (that it drew the name just from the sphere in
game), in which two groups of equal number of players, rury compete to
take the ball, offered a more varied and competitive show that, al
same time, comprised the exercize of the race, the jump and the fight.
From the Greeks, this ludo, passed to the Roman which, with the name
of Harpastum (torn to force) played it on the sabbiosi lands (for
which the name harpastum often he was aggettivato with pulveruleotum)
practicing to precise rules to which the two squares, always of equal
number of players, had to be adhered.
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