Palio dei Ciuchi Asciano
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Palio dei Ciuchi
Where: Centro Storico e Stadio Guglielmo Marconi di Asciano
When: Seconda domenica di Settembre
Time: Tutto il pomeriggio
After about a month of preparation, decoration, dinner, stroll the
historic and skits, comes the crucial moment, the fateful race in
the glorious stage 'Guglielmo Marconi'. The competition solge the
second Sunday in September and sees all the seven districts under
the stands at the start, winning the one who crosses the finish
line after three laps (up to 1999 revs to do were two). DescentThe
All & egrave; governed by precise rules which are often changed
over the years. They were dictated by the Société
& agrave; Sports organizer of the event, then with the imprints
of the Association of Contrada, regulations were drawn from this.
But back to the race, this was created as a mockery of the Palio di
Siena, its initial spirit was supposed to be comedy, jockeys were
the classic characters from the place of come'Franchino masherino
'and' The Picino ', but as all competitions no one st & agrave;
to lose, in fact over the years the speech & egrave; made more
and more & ugrave; which arose from serious rivalry heated
& agrave; and disputes and mount the donkey are reserved for
riders with some experience or at least with a good predisposition
to ride. Lately, some districts have even mounted jockeys
professionals, who have won the competition with more donkeys &
ugrave; Brenni. So given the difference that arose with the other
jockeys KNIGHT STANCOl'associazione insert a clause which prohibits
the jockeys mount with any experience of official competition. In
addition, the mounts & egrave; been given only to citizens
residing in the town of Asciano at least for about a year.