“Healthy Wrist”

Traditions

Challenge-historical event of the country, the 8 Pulsan districts challenge each other. The event is preceded by parades in medieval clothes with jugglers, flag bearers and the presence of the Pulsano Heraldic Trumpet.
The parade recalls an event in Pulsan history: in 1407 the Countess of Lecce and Princess of Taranto Maria d’Enghien (widow of the Prince of Taranto Raimondo Orsini Del Balzo, to whom Falcone De Falconibus was called to be a witness) and the Angioino king of the Kingdom of Naples Ladislao of Durazzo, newlyweds, after spending their wedding night in a house owned by Marino De Falconibus in the old city of Taranto, reached the feud of Pulsano, guests of the same baron Marino, on their honeymoon (secretary of Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, son of the late Raimondo and Maria d’Enghien), and staying in the castle, they witnessed, in the evening, challenges to the game of the pulse between some Pulsan soldiers and the most valiant citizens [. Even today, therefore, in the historical re-enactment, the king and the queen take a walk along the Pulsano roads starting from and to Piazza where they observe the healthy pulse tournament. The “Polso Sano” event, which has been held since 1982, received the great recognition in 2009 of being included in the Gathering of Medieval Historical Parades.
(the very name of the town seems to refer to this challenge of pulse: “Pulsano” term derives from “ab insigni inhabitantsum pulsu”, that is from the strong pulse of the inhabitants, or from ancient tournaments of healthy pulse (currently known as “game of the arm of iron “) disputing on various occasions, such as Christmas, Easter or, at times, during harvest and harvest, among the strongest soldiers and citizens)

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