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Il Palio in Siena, Italy: The World’s Wildest Horse Race

Il Palio in Siena, Italy: The World’s Wildest Horse Race

Reader, please note that I wrote this in the summer of 2010. This is a story for entertainment purposes as certain details are too out of date to be a travel guide. Bribery, alliances, medieval tradition, grandiose public displays of emotion, danger, violence. I read about Il Palio in Siena, […]