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FOLIGNO Last night the great Giostra della Sfida (news, results and photos on lanazione.it/umbria). A riot of colors and emotions at the Campo de li Giochi, which gave the ‘best of the best’ the Palio. Carousel sold out, as Palazzo Candiotti had anticipated in the previous days. Meanwhile on Friday the city was filled with the magic of the historical parade. A thousand people in amazing period costumes walked the ring of the historic center and gave Quintana residents and tourists an authentic show. To enrich everything, the clothes renewed by the Rioni who collaborated with historic tailors. The show was opened by the Allegory of the Four Elements curated by the Ente Giostra. From the stage in Piazza della Repubblica the traditional ceremony opened by the president of the organization, Domenico Metelli, who remembered the members of the first central committee and the presidents who have succeeded one another at the top of the organization from 1946 to today. “If we are here – he said – it is because we have never done false things. They taught us to do Quintana, to be respectful, to rejoice in defeats and celebrate victories. Today we feel the burden of representing the city, because loving Foligno is love the Quintana”. A brief greeting also from the mayor Stefano Zuccarini from the stage and then the blessing from Bishop Sorrentino: “You are a beautiful manifestation of being together in joy and peace”. Then the ceremony with the reading of the Notice from the historic voice of Claudio Pesaresi and the blessing of the knights.