SIENA, Italy (Reuters) - The sounds of thundering hooves and a roaring crowd have filled Siena's Piazza del Campo almost every year since the mid-1600s.
The passion that surrounds the bareback horse race between riders from competing city districts -- the Palio di Siena -- is palpable to the point of sometimes being violent.
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