#Italy: The annual running of the Palio di Siena: the winning horse is welcomed in the Cathedral. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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🗓️ 19 August 2023
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#Italy: The annual running of the Palio di Siena: the winning horse is welcomed in the Cathedral. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS, I'm the World, I'm John Bachelorette, to Lorenzo Fiori of the Anzada Foundation, |
| 0:11.1 | who's in his home village for growing grapes and olives, Sarah Di Napolano, outside of |
| 0:18.8 | Siena, and we're going to Siena right away. |
| 0:21.8 | This is Italy's tourist season, but there's an event here that the Italians themselves |
| 0:27.3 | travel to see. It's called the Palio di Siena. It's a horse race, several hundred years |
| 0:33.1 | old, and it's quite wild to describe the people of Siena that stand in the middle and form |
| 0:41.6 | a circle around the square of Siena, outside people stand as well, and the horses represent |
| 0:49.5 | different districts. I'm going to stop there because I don't entirely understand how |
| 0:54.5 | this is safe. It's not entirely safe. Lorenzo, a very good evening to you. The understanding |
| 1:01.1 | here is that each year this race is held, and there's fierce competition between the |
| 1:06.9 | neighborhoods of Siena. This year, the competition was between Oca and Tower. What is Oca |
| 1:14.1 | represent? What is Tower represent? And why is the Palio look so dangerous to me? Good |
| 1:19.3 | evening to you. Good evening, Johnny. Good evening to all the radio listeners as well. Well, |
| 1:24.6 | let's say that I'm trying to recover from the results of the last Palio because my |
| 1:30.1 | father was born in Siena in the district of the Tower. In the Tower arrived second behind |
| 1:36.1 | Oca and Oca and Tower are enemy each other. At least my wife was very happy because she's |
| 1:44.2 | for Oca. And so she is still excited because of this, let's say, important result. Well, |
| 1:52.0 | Palio is a sort of celebration of the people of Siena, of the 17 districts. And ten of them, |
| 2:02.2 | twice a year around this competition, which is a pretty dangerous simply because the square |
| 2:09.6 | is totally asymmetric and not on the flat is on the sliding land. And so it's pretty challenging |
| 2:20.2 | for the riders to run three terms of this square with all the people in size, something |
| 2:26.5 | like 25,000 people. But it's a fantastic moment that lasts only one minute and half, which |
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