Italy-palio Flap
ROME - The city of Siena's famed bareback horse race, the Palio, is a big tourist draw in Tuscany, but Italy's tourism minister said it amounts to cruelty to animals and suggested it's time to end the centuries-old spectacles.
ROME - Italy's tourism minister has called for an end to the nation's popular Palio horse races, likening them to Spain's bullfights for exploiting animals.
