Horse Blog

From a nice Italian travelog, the horse races in Sienna.

Furthermore, I learned that in Siena there is a great sense of community. Twice a year in the summer, the city has a fantastic horse race that is put on by the city's seventeen "contratas" or sections. Each contrata has it's own flag, animal symbol (my favorite was the snail...I think it's an inside joke), and people take the contrata so seriously that if someone married outside of his or her contrata into another contrata, he or she must live with his or her parents and family for the week during the races. It is very seldom that this happens though. It's funny to think that in such a small town with contratas the size of a high school's campus, people can fall in love and marry within their own contrata.

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