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Busily preparing for the first of Italy. The National Festival of First Courses, this year has reached the eleventh edition, full of promises surprises. So many in fact the news that the organizzazionesta developing for four days, at the end of  September 2010, which will make the capital city of Foligno pasta.

For the program, visit the official website

http://www.iprimiditalia.it/index.php

Giostra della Quintana

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The Tournament of the Quintana is a jousting tournament and a costumed historical event that takes place in Foligno, the challenge generally on the third Saturday in June (at night) and then win the second Sunday in September. The name derives from the name of Quintana fifth road of the Roman Empire, which took place in the training of soldiers, armed with spears, hurled themselves against a puppet trying to catch a ring hanging from a hand puppet. Then climb up the origins of the tournament, but the first documented evidence of the progress of Quintana as knights' jousting tournament at a party, dates back to 1448. Since then, in Foligno, the Quintana was held every year without interruption until today, with the exception of a break of nearly a century until 1946, when it was restored in its present form. In 1613 the priorities built into the framework of celebrating the carnival Quintana, changing the conduct and spirit with the criteria that exist today. The riders are jousters 10, representatives of as many districts of the city. At full gallop on a horse, should stick with a spear a series of rings which gradually become smaller. The rings are hung on the right hand of a statue rotating solid walnut (seventeenth century) that the left holds a shield and depicts the god Mars. This race had, in other times, the role of conferring honorific titles several riders. The spectacle of the race is surrounded by a parade of historical parade with over 600 listed in the seventeenth century that the rich dresses, the evening before the duel, passes through the streets of Foligno.La Giostra della Quintana was restored in 1946 to idea of Emilio de Pasquale, Andria and Foligno original adoption (as Hector Treasurers, organizer of the 1613 edition) with the cooperation of some fellow Foligno, including Luke Barnocchi who saw to look spectacular, at his own expense by renting the costumes and bringing them from Florence. Luke Barnocchi was also the first president of the Tournament of the Quintana.
Program  available at this address:

http://www.quintana.it/ 

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