Tag: Italy

  • Florence’s annual bloody brawl that seems more than a tad homoerotic

    Florence’s annual bloody brawl that seems more than a tad homoerotic

      Calcio Storico which must qualify as one of roughest competitive sports ever is also one of the World’s oldest and has been played exactly by the same tough rules in Florence,  Italy for the past five centuries.  Once every year neighbors become rivals, and local Tuscans become gladiators and split into four teams as they wage a no-holds-barred battle for the soul…