- A
contrada (plural:
contrade) is
generally a
district within the
Italian countryside. In the city of Siena, the term
indicates the 17
urban wards, whose...
- and
dressed in the
appropriate colours,
represent ten of the
seventeen contrade, or city wards, in a
tradition dating back to the 17th-century. The Palio...
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groups of houses) also
called contrade:
there are thus
contrade within contrade. Besides, some
places known as
contrade exist also
within other neighbourhoods...
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event was
named Sagra del Carroccio.
Legnano is
subdivided into
eight contrade, each of
which takes part both in the
medieval pageant and in the horse...
- by
large crowds, and is
widely televised. Ten
randomly selected from 17
Contrade (which are city
neighbourhoods originally formed as
battalions for the...
- The
contrade of
Legnano are the
eight historical subdivisions into
which the city of Legnano, in Lombardy, in Italy, is divided. They parti****te annually...
- of
Bavaria (1730)
determines the
territorial division of the
seventeen Contrade of
Siena by
reference to the
palaces and
their owners of the time, thus...
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where they stay
until Easter Monday.
Started in 1963, the
Palio delle Contrade sees the
inhabitants of the five
districts of
Bormio compete against each...
- for
Contrade Dell' Oca 2 July 1998 -
winning for
Contrade Dell' Oca 2 July 1999 -
winning for
Contrade Dell' Oca 2 July 2000 -
winning for
Contrade Dell'...
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outside the
walled city
counts 99
hamlets (frazioni) and
localities named contrade. Some of them,
which merged with the
urbanized area of the town, were suppressed...
