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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- no. 36-2669817 Region North America Fields Vexillology Official language English President Stanley K. Contrades Key people Ted Kaye Website nava.org...
- groups of houses) also called contrade: there are thus contrade within contrade. Besides, some places known as contrade exist also within other neighbourhoods...
- Filippo Pigafetta, Relatione del Reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade tratta dalli scritti & ragionamenti di Odoardo Lope[S] Portoghese / per...
- 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...
- Bobbio (Bobbiese: Bòbi; Ligurian: Bêubbi; Latin: Bobium) is a small town and comune in the province of Piacenza in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. It is...
- through the streets of the city and finally a horse race between the eight contrade in which Legnano is divided. The historical re-enactment of the oath of...
- by large crowds, and is widely televised. Ten randomly selected from 17 Contrade (which are city neighbourhoods originally formed as battalions for the...