Our family is traveling to Piemonte during the first week of September and plan to attend the Palio di Asti on September 6th. We are staying near the town of Barolo and will drive to the event. Does anyone have suggestions about getting tickets and traveling to the event.
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Idaho, USA
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Hi Mike, I attended it last year, and what a fun local historical event! I contacted the main website for tickets and wasn’t hearing back from them. I stayed at Hotel Lis in Asti, so I sent them a message through Booking,com, and they very nicely bought me a ticket for the section where I wanted to sit near the finish line. I paid them for it when I arrived to check into the hotel.
Get there early! There’s several parades, and Sunday morning the neighborhoods are having their own procession that goes into their church. I have some amazing photos of that happening. And all of the people who were in the various parades file into the piazza as a long procession, also, before the race begins. I was there Saturday & Sunday and busy with events or a museum almost the entire time.
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OP
Incline Village, NV
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Hi Jean, thanks for your suggestion - I will look into spending the night in Asti
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AZ 🌵
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Mike, I plan be at the Palio. I requested a ticket per instructions on the Palio’s website (scroll down past the pictures on the attached link). I have yet to receive a response. Per Jean’s suggestion I emailed my hotel and they put in a request for me.
https://visit.asti.it/en/september-in-asti/the-palio-of-asti/
Have a great trip! Buon Viaggio!
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OP
Incline Village, NV
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Thanks AZ. I have also put in a request to the official site (just yesterday) and am awaiting a response. What section did you request - I'd like to be in a shaded section.
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AZ 🌵
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Mike,
First choice is Tribuna Alfieri Centrale/Coperto. Second choice is Tribuna Alfieri Arrivo. I don’t know how they delegate tickets but it is not what we are use to.
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Chicago, IL, USA
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If you were a month later, the Palio Degli Asini is in Alba, which IIRC is closer to Barolo. A different kind of spectacle, to be sure, created as a mockery of the Asti overlord’s celebration. ;-).
Seconding or thirding the idea of staying in Asti for the night before, adding the idea of staying a second night. The processions and the celebration after are all something.
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Mike, the Palio di Asti flag-holders attended the Italian-themed fest in Antibes this past February. There were some very beautiful young women among their members (sound of slap). Their blue-and-white medieval uniforms were authentic and their accompanying horn troupe were the finale to that affair, appearing in the Square of the Resistance Martyrs right after the Venetian costume troupe.
I am done. The end.