The Golden Roster

• … and they used to rinse clothes in the Ombrone
• After September 8th 1943
• Between the twenties and thirties
• Corrado Capecchi, military internee
  • A medal (at last) for Corrado
  • The joke of the military internees
• Five places of Romanesque Carmignano
• Friar Bocci, at the beginning of the twentieth century
• From archaeologists to farmers
• Gino Balena
• Gino di Fico
• Historical shops in Carmignano
• In the name of Jesus and Saint Peter, may the sty go away
• Liberation day
• Matteucci, the ‘forgotten’ bishop
• Soldier in Greece
• Stories from a school notebook
• Stories of donkeys and jockeys
• Stories of mayors and town councils in Carmignano
• Stories of our home
• Stories of war and displaced persons
• The Battistina and other scary stories
• The colours of the rioni
• The Golden Roster
• The last sharecropper in Carmignano
• The siege in memory of the Princess
• The tree of liberty in Carmignano
• Ugo Contini Bonacossi
• Vittorio’s bicycles
• When the river Arno was fordable ..
• When they were digging pietra serena between Arno and Ombrone
• The colours of Carmignano, a small guide for tourists
  • Ancient churches and abbeys. Montalbano, a crossroads for pilgrims.
    • San Giusto al Pinone
    • San Jacopo in Capezzana
    • San Leonardo in Artimino
    • San Lorenzo in Montalbiolo
    • San Martino in Campo
    • San Michele amarcord
      • San Michele, the theater takes to the streets
• Itineraries for just a few days or more
  • Walking through history and nature
  • A Sunday devoted to the discovery of Artimino
  • A few words about the hamlets of Carmignano
  • The Fontina and Castagnati Lake
• Guides to download

It’s been eighty years from the first Feast, but only 42 parades and 45 races have taken place since then. In fact there had been a long
interruption because of the war, from 1939 to 1956. There were other halts due to listlessness and debates about victories that weren’t considered legitimate: from 1958 to 1963 and from 1975 to 1979. There had also been years in which the parade and the race took place but the trophies weren’t given out or, as happened in the nineties when the feast took place with participation of only three districts.
In many years the dominant colour in the book of gold of the Feast of San Michele has undoubtedly been blue. The “Arcangelo” district has won on 22 out of 42 occasions, including the 1964 edition in which there was only one trophy (and won by The Greens, for the most points scored in the race of donkeys), but the leaders of the parade were The Blues. Right after the blue team come The Whites with 11 victories followed by The Greens with 8, 7 of which between 1987 and 1995, the year of their last victory, then The Yellows with only two victories – in 1969 and in 1971.
The positions are reversed in the Palio of donkeys. The first are The Yellows with 15 Palio out of 45, the second – Whites with 13, the third – Blue with 11 and the last – Greens with 6 victories. The Greens also won the race of donkeys last year. (Wf)
(The book of gold is updated to the edition of 2011 included)