Palio di Siena 2027: How Hard Is It in a Day?
The race is in the evening and every flight home has gone by then. Stay one night in Siena or Florence.
The Palio di Siena 2027 is on Friday 2 July and Monday 16 August, and honestly it's the hardest day trip we've looked at.
Palio di Siena dates 2027
2 July is the Palio di Provenzano, 16 August is the Palio dell'Assunta. Same square both times, three laps of Piazza del Campo that are over in about a minute and a half.
Why it doesn't fit in a day
You need to be in the Piazza from mid-afternoon to get a place in the middle and the race goes off in the evening. Every flight home from Pisa or Florence has gone by the time it starts.
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How hard is it, honestly
Siena hasn't got an airport you'd fly into, so it's Pisa or Florence and then a bus or train inland, about an hour and a quarter from Florence. Then it's hours stood in a packed square in July or August heat.
Even the getting there is a full morning, before you've thought about the race.
Siena Palio tickets
Standing in the middle of the Campo is free. The seats and balconies round the edge are sold privately, for August they start around €350 a person and July's usually cheaper.
What we'd do
Stay one night. Fly into Pisa or Florence that morning or the day before, see the race, sleep in Siena or Florence and fly home the next day. The contrade put on big outdoor dinners the night before the race, which is worth seeing on its own.
If we can ever price a day that works it'll be on the Palio page.
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