It is finally back: the festivals-season in Le Marche! We have been longing the festival atmosphere, the community engagement, the full agenda and..the delicious food! Every festival is unique, indeed they also have different names: sagra, festa, fiera or palio and usually take place on weekends. Some have a long Read more…
We mentioned already in one of our very first posts how the word palio has much more to entail than just what Palio di Siena does. It is especially the case of Jesi, which every year starting from May 4th re-enacts one of its most important historical moment with a Read more…
I do not want to put other regions in a bad light, but while looking for some English pages on palio in the web, I only encountered the proportion Palio : Siena. That’s not fair!! The palio tradition can be found everywhere in Italy, and not only by meaning a horse race. Read more…