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Subscribe to RSSThis year's Palio horse race, usually clouded with debate over animal rights, has turned into a religious controversy.Read the article here.
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Horses of the Contrada of Unicorn, Eagle and Giraff fall down in the Casato curve during the Palio horseracing on July 2 in Siena. The Palio is a medieval horse race and pageant, which pits the ancient districts of Siena against each other in competition for the victory banner and in honor of the Virgin Mary. Animal rights group have often expressed their concern about the injuries and deaths of horses who frequently fall, collide, or are trampled during the race.
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I first heard about The Palio in a book I read entitled "Too Much Tuscan Sun", this is a very rag tag event, it's almost the demolishion derby of medieval times carried on. These rivalries go back centuries and there is much intense fervor during the event.
Had Hemmingway been in Italy, not Spain, he might have written about The Palio and not The Running of The Bulls.