page_title: Palio di Legnano
section_title: The organization of the palio
hierarchical_section_title: Palio di Legnano / The organization of the palio
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Palazzo Malinverni, sede del Municipio di Legnano This is a photo of a monument which is part of cultural heritage of Italy. This monument participates in the contest Wiki Loves Monuments Italia 2013. See authorisations. (wiki-ID: 0151181344)
context_page_description: The Palio di Legnano is a folk event generally held on the last Sunday of May in the City Of Legnano, Italy, to recall the Battle of Legnano held on May 29, 1176 by the Lombard League and the Holy Roman Empire of Frederick Barbarossa. This Palio is composed by a medieval pageant and a horse race. Until 2005 the whole 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 race held at the stadio Giovanni Mari. This is considered one of the most important non-competitive events of this type in Italy. In 2003 the historic pageant was shown at the Columbus Day in New York City.
  A lot of Palio-centric events take place in Legnano during May and July, such as the choral exhibition La Fabbrica del Canto '' born in 1992 from an idea of the musical association Jubilate. In 2015, institutions made 29 May a holiday for the whole of Lombardy.
context_section_description: The reasons that induce Legnanesi to organize the palio annually with great profusion of efforts and means - including financial ones - are expressed in Article 1 of the regulation of the event, which reads:
  [...] The Palio di Legnano is the historical re-enactment of the battle of Legnano which is celebrated every year in order to enhance the ideals of freedom and autonomy of the municipalities. The Palio di Legnano is the culminating moment of the cultural activity and social aggregation of the city contrade. [...]
  — Article 1 of the regulation of the Palio di Legnano
  The organization of the palio, structured in this way since 1986, or since his leadership passed to the municipal administration, is led by the palio committee, which is composed of the "supreme magistrate", the "Cavaliere del Carroccio", from the "grand master of the college of captains and the contrade", from the president of the Famiglia Legnanese, from the "great priors" and other members who are representing the Municipal council, the Famiglia Legnanese and the college of captains and contrade. The supreme magistrate, who is the mayor of Legnano, decrees, through a public tender, the official start of the palio.
  Then there is the "board of magistrates of the palio", which is formed by the grand master of the college of captains and the contrade, by the president of the Famiglia Legnanese and by the supreme magistrate, who chairs the sessions. This body has the function of resolving disputes between the contrade. Finally, to make sure that the ceremonial of the event is scrupulously observed, the college of magistrates of the palio and the Cavaliere del Carroccio, having consulted the palio committee, appoint two masters of ceremonies who come from the contrade and join the official master of ceremonies of the municipality of Legnano.
  The Cavaliere del Carroccio, who holds the role of executive director of the organization of the palio, is appointed by the supreme magistrate after hearing the president of the Famiglia Legnanese and the grand master of the college of the captains and the contrade. A very important task of the Cavaliere del Carroccio is to name the mossiere (or the starter horse race). Until 1985 the functions of the Cavaliere del Carroccio were attributed to the president of the Sagra del Carroccio.
  In the pre-World War II editions the organizational aspects were very different, given that they were strongly conditioned by political power. There was a council of the palio, which was formed by the political and military authorities of the fascist regime, by an assembly made up of the captains of the contrade, or by those who still hold the historic contrade, and by a so-called "Magistrate", which was a collegial body consisting of two members appointed by the beam secretary and the podestà of Legnano. From 1952, when the organization of the palio was resumed after the pause due to the war events of the World War II, the preparation of the event was entirely left to the Famiglia Legnanese. This situation lasted until 1986 when, as already mentioned, the organization passed to the municipal administration.
caption: Palazzo Malinverni, seat of the municipality of Legnano
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