Anna Pepperado will never forget the first time she watched the

Palio horse race on the main square in Siama, Italy.

My hair on my arms stood up when that race started.

It was incredible. I absolutely fell in love with everything around it.

Traveling the Blues route in the Mississippi Delta can show you some of the worst poverty in America,

but it can also show you some of the worst poverty in America, but it can also show you some of the warmest

welcomes.

People are very welcoming, very friendly.

I mean you kind of sat down at their dinner table before you even know what's happened. And Erica Lee shares stories of the earliest Asian immigrants to the USA.

Some of those hidden stories of long trans-specific journeys, of building the trans Transcontinental Railroad or of being the first Chinese

woman in the United States.

Experience the Palio and Siena, road trip with the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, and learn the stories of new Americans from Asia.

It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

His friends couldn't believe that he'd left Manhattan and bought a house in what was literally a rural backwater along the Yazoo River in the Mississippi Delta.

Author Richard Grant is back with us today on Travel with Rick Steeves to tell us more about his home in Pluto, Mississippi,

and to recommend Road Trip Adventures on the nearby Blues Routes of the Delta.

And Erica Lee brings us stories of Asian immigrants to the

USA. From the dangers faced by Chinese workers imported back in the 19th century

to stories of newcomers arriving in recent decades. That's all in just a bit

in the hour ahead. Let's start today's travel with Rick Steeves with a look at one of Italy's

top city festivals for the last 800 years.

Each summer, my favorite town square in Tuscany

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