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3 unusual facts about Palio di Asti


Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato is one the comuni in the province of Asti that take part in the Palio di Asti on the third Sunday of September, in Asti.

Palio di Asti

In 1967, to mark the 1000th anniversary of the foundation of the Marquisate of Montferrat and the 800th anniversary of the Lombard League, the palio was resurrected.

On May 3, 1936, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, soldiers of the 104th Legion of Black Shirts, mainly composed of Asti residents, ran a special donkey palio on the banks of Lake Ashenge in Ethiopia.



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