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Medieval News Archive18-Feb-2007
In northern Italy, a three-day orange-throwing festival honors a legendary tale of civic rebellion. This was taken in Volterra, Italy, a Medieval city in the heart of the Tuscany region, on May 30, 2005. We were on a 12-day Mediterranean cruise, and while many other travelers visited Florence that day, we took this shore excursion, which included a guided tour of the Medieval towns of Volterra and San Gimignano. With a drumroll and the blast of a trumpet, the horses gallop down the course one by one, bearing riders in medieval costumes hellbent on plucking a metal star out of the air with a sword. TAMPA - They didn't have a horse-drawn carriage, but Brian and Amber McKnight were the picture of medieval characters with their garb. Alok Tripathi of the ASI said that the excavation near the northern gate of Dwarkadish temple has revealed some structural remains of medieval age. Hypnotic, meditative, by turns serenely simple and exotically strange ? a collection of chants from Medieval Croatia gets it North American debut performances over the next 10 days as Ensemble Dialogos, a Paris-based vocal group led by singer and scholar Katarina Livljanic, tours the U.S. and Canada with a program titled Tondal's Vision .
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