Week Recap (Part 2) Views around Siena - Palio Edition
Siena is such a gorgeous medieval city, even more so during the week leading up to the famous Palio horse race!
A medieval fountain, one of many around town!
Sienese children in the grandstands for the pre-race trails, wearing their contrada colors, chanting their neighborhood's songs.
For the Feast day of the Assumption, we were blessed to serve Mass in the Duomo! Here's a few pictures of the amazing sacristry, (the Archbishop here is shown in the photo above)
Getting ready to serve. Those seminarians who didn't bring their cassocks and surplices were able to borrow albs.
Afterwards, it was time for pranzo, so we headed to our favorite Indian restaurant. Great flavors and it was a welcome change from pasta at every meal. :)
The morning of the Palio, attended outdoor Mass with the archbishop at the chapel on the edge of the Campo that was constructed in thanksgiving for Siena surviving the plague, centuries ago.
The Tartuca contrada church... so beautiful! We walk by it everyday, just down the street from school, but it is never open to the public, only for the local contrada families.
The streets were so packed with visitors that we watched the Palio at the Dublin Post and then waited for the crowds to thin, before heading downtown.
The banners of the victors! The Onda Contrada won!
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