Piazza del Campo packed during the Palio di Siena, seen from the balconies and windows

Your private view over Piazza del Campo from a window

The view over the Palazzo Pubblico on Piazza del Campo from a private palace window, with two antique chairs

Siena · July 2 & August 16

The Palio di Siena,
from a window all your own.

Name: Palio dell'Assunta 2026
Start: 2026-08-16
End: 2026-08-16
Location: Piazza del Campo

Twelve private vantage points over Piazza del Campo to live the world's oldest race — above the crowd, with the hospitality of a Sienese palazzo.

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The view

The exclusive view
over Piazza del Campo.

From your window the square opens up below you — the shell of brick, the Torre del Mangia, the racetrack. A sight few in the world will ever have.

The window

And behind the window,
a drawing room of your own.

Not a grandstand, but the rooms of a Sienese palace: antique chairs, quiet, a glass in hand. The Palio, lived from your own home.

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The privilege of the view

Not a ticket.
An invitation.

While sixty thousand people press into the square below, you watch history from above — from a palazzo window that has belonged to the same Sienese families for generations. A glass of wine in hand, your heart in your throat.

First recorded race

Contrade

Laps of the square

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Of pure emotion

The Windows

Every window tells
a different story.

San Martino curve

The Experience

Behind every window, a palazzo. Inside every palazzo, Sienese hospitality.

The wait is part of the ritual. From early afternoon the palazzo is yours: frescoed halls, a buffet of Tuscan delicacies, wines from the hills that circle the city. Then the Historical Procession passes beneath you, and the whole square holds its breath.

Our concierge takes care of every detail — from your transfer to the sommelier, from the historian who tells you the story of the contrade to dinner after the race.

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The Palio di Siena

Not a reenactment.
The very life of the city.

Twice a year, on July 2 and August 16, ten contrade battle for the Drappellone over three laps of the square. Ninety seconds that Siena spends an entire year preparing for.

Page of the Valdimontone contrada during the Historical Procession of the Palio

Before the race

The Historical Procession: the show before the show.

Those who have never been to the Palio imagine the hours before the race are mere waiting. They are wrong: for two hours, some six hundred figures in Renaissance costume parade across the tufa — all seventeen contrade, the flag-wavers hurling their banners toward the windows, the ox-drawn Carroccio carrying the Drappellone. From your window, it is a tapestry come to life.

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The Palio horses racing beneath the Torre del Mangia — The race

Piazza del Campo seen from the top of the Torre del Mangia — From above

The atmosphere in Piazza del Campo before the Palio race — The wait

Jockey of the Civetta contrada during a trial race — The contrade

The story of the Palio

From the window you see everything: the square seething below, the contrada scarves, the dust of the tufa. And for ninety seconds, time stands still.

The Palio, from above

Concierge

Our windows are not booked.
They are requested.

Every inquiry receives a personal reply within 24 hours, with a proposal built around your wishes. Availability is limited: the finest windows are assigned months before the race.

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