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Montepulciano is a famous town in Tuscany. It is famous for its Nobile wine, and for many extremely genuine products such as the cheese, honey, jams, and typical Tuscan sweets.

The Bravio is an extreme feat for the athletic pushers that alternate their strengths to compete with eleven pairs of rollers.
The huge and heavy wine barrels (hundreds of pounds) are rolled upwards the extreley steep uphills in town along a track of one mile and a half.

Just to let you have an idea of the extreme struggle, a couple of years ago one pusher died of a heart attack during the trials.

Here the Bravio in an 8 minute long video. It also is a good video to show the streets of Montepulciano.

The Bravio is always run the last Sunday of August.

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