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The triangle of territory between Florence, the sea and the Apennines preserves a medieval landscape of completeness found nowhere else in Italy. Three cities in particular — Siena, San Gimignano and Volterra — represent the summit of what the Italian city-state achieved in stone, paint and civic organisation.

Private access to Italy's most storied horse race — a ninety-second event built on a year of preparation, and the most considered way to attend it. There is no event in Italy that explains the country to a foreign visitor as efficiently as the Palio di Siena. It lasts ninety seconds. It has been run, in essentially the same form, since 1656. It is not a sporting event in any modern sense; it is a civic and religious rite that the city of Siena has kept alive while the rest of