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Corsa alla Spada e Palio

Third Sunday of May

On the even of the Patron's feast three processions of people dressed in precious Renaissance costumes start respectively from each Terziere (town district) and pass along the city roads, full of hanging standards and heraldic bearings, at the light of torches and at the rythm of bass clarins and drums, to finally gather in San Venanzio's Church, where the ceremony of the Offer of Candles takes place.

On the following Sunday the sumptuous Procession of the Palio passes along the historic centre. Just after that comes the so-called Corsa alla Spada (Race of the Sword): thirty young men, ten from each Terziere, try hard to gain the trophies - the Sword and the Palio standard - mainly climbing up a steep slope.

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