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It is considered by tradition the centre of the world. Foligno, in the heart of Umbria and Italy, is famous worldwide for the Quintana, the jousting tournament which in June and September renews the challenge among the knights of its ten wards. An exciting challenge where each knight, riding his own galloping horse, has to catch a series of rings (which gradually become smaller and smaller) hanging from a wooden statue called Quintana. It is a great feast of people, colours and passions, but also an
accurate historical, scenic, iconographic and gastronomic reconstruction of the Italian Baroque. This is Foligno, with its 17th century palaces, museums, Baroque Oratories and the first edition of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, printed here in 1472. The night before the game a historical parade goes through the city centre. Hundreds of characters dressed in Baroque costumes represent the local body responsible for the Tournament (Giostra), the Townhall and the ten Wards. Noblemen and ladies, knights on horseback, pages and valets, drummers and trumpet players, flag bearers and flag jugglers bring back the emotions of the past in a wonderful pageantry.