Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A centuries-old horse race in a picturesque Italian city comes across as a brazenly corrupt, carnival-like contact sport in “Palio ...

The crowd looks on as an oxen cart pulls the Palio banner through Siena’s main square. Rick Steves www.ricksteves.com In the gorgeously preserved Tuscan hill town of Siena, Italy, the Middle Ages seem ...

It is one of the craziest, bloodiest, and most corrupt horse races on earth, and every summer it brings the walled city of Siena to a fever pitch. How on earth did the scion of one of America's great ...

Siena, Italy — IN a scene that harks back to the Middle Ages, 50,000 spectators in this city’s packed, fan-shaped piazza explode with emotion as horses representing rival neighborhoods burst from ...

Cosima Spender's documentary depicts the behind-the-scenes intrigue of the famous horse race held biannually in the Italian city of Siena. By THR Staff PALIO Still - H 2015 Among the more colorful ...