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Extract from the Asti Travel Guides:
In the run-up to its annual Palio,
ASTI
throws off its sedate air and hosts street banquets and a medieval market. On the day of the race itself, the third Sunday in September, there's a thousand-strong procession of citizens dressed as their fourteenth-century ancestors, before the frenetic bare-backed horse race around the arena of the Campo del Palio - followed by the awarding of the
palio
(banner) to the winner and all-night feasting and boozing.
The rest of the year the Campo del Palio is a vast, bleak car park, and there's frankly not a lot to see. The arcaded
Piazza Alfieri
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read the whole Asti Travel Guides...
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