{"id":889,"date":"2016-05-21T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/?p=889"},"modified":"2016-05-21T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T09:06:08","slug":"english-palio-di-ferrara-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/english-palio-di-ferrara-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Palio of Ferrara 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month of celebrations, parades, flag-throwing competitions and a spectacular horse race in Piazza Ariostea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Palio was made official in 1279 and rapidly transformed into the symbol of a glorious and fascinating Renaissance.<\/p>\n

Since then rituals and dates have only changed slightly, celebration in the town has not been altered. A month of celebrations, parades, races and competitions between the eight Contrade [quarters tied to the parish] to win the precious drape dedicated to Saint George, the patron saint of Ferrara.<\/p>\n

The already warm month of May welcomes the figurants in original costume who parade through the streets of the city centre and the hard-fought flag-throwing competitions in Piazza del Municipio take us up to the spectacular horse race in Piazza Ariostea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Timetable<\/h3>\n
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Friday May 6th, h. 9 pm <\/strong>Cathedral
\nBLESSING OF THE PALII<\/strong>: the Contrade take part to the Holy Mass in the Cathedral, each of them offering a candle to the altar. The bishop blesses the “palii”, the prizes for the winners of the four races all’altare.<\/p>\n

Saturday May 7th, h. 4pm \u00a0and 8.30 pm
\n<\/strong>Piazza Municipale
\nJUNIOR FLAG-WAVING GAMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

May 14th, h. 9 pm ; May 15th, h. 4 pm <\/strong>
\nPiazza Municipale
\nOLD GAMES OF THE ESTE FLAGS <\/strong>
\nThe flag wavers of the Ferarra Palio have been masters of their art for hundreds of years and have won numerous international competitions. These competitions also draw a huge crowd of devoted fans. The music, colour and acrobacy of these exhibitions has the effect of carrying the public back in time to the golden days of when the Este family ruled the city.<\/p>\n

Saturday May 21st, h. 9 pm<\/strong>
\nCorso Ercole I d’Este – Este Castle
\nHISTORICAL PROCESSION<\/strong>
\nThe contrade, represented by over 1000 people in Renaissance costumes, parade from the Porta degli Angeli along Corso Ercole I d\u2019Este to the torch-lighted Castle. In the square, before the Duke and the Este court, they enrol in the palio contests and take a solemn oath.<\/p>\n

May 27th and 28th, h. 9.30 am and 6 pm<\/strong>
\nPiazza Ariostea
\nHORSES<\/strong> TESTING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday May 29th, h. 4 pm<\/strong>
\nRACES OF THE PALIO<\/strong>
\nThe races take place every year on the last Sunday of May, to recall the extraordinary Palio that celebrated the crowning of Borso d’Este as first Dukeof Ferrara in 1471.
\nThe races, preceeded by the historical parade, are four:
\nCorsa dei putti – Boys’ race (Palio di San Romano)
\nCorsa delle putte – Girls’ race (Palio di San Paolo)
\nCorsa delle asine – Donkey race (Palio di San Maurelio)
\nCorsa dei cavalli – Horse race (Palio di San Giorgio).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: ferraraterraeacqua.it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A month of celebrations, parades, flag-throwing competitions and a spectacular horse race in Piazza Ariostea. The Palio was made official in 1279 and rapidly transformed into the symbol of a glorious and fascinating Renaissance. Since then rituals and dates have only changed slightly, celebration in the town has not been altered. A month of celebrations, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dodici-apostoli.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}