Four of these neighborhoods correspond to four wards located inside the medieval town fortifications.

The remaining four correspond to external boroughs.

The Palio is an historical reenactment based on 1259 celebrations for the return from Rome of Borso d'Este after receiving the duchy investiture from Pope Paul II.

After a long interruption the tradition was briefly reenacted in 1933, stopped again during World War II and eventually restarted in 1967.

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