The right history of Rome Piazza di Siena CSIO begins in 1928 with four teams in competition (France, Poland, Spain and Italy) and one Italian, the Captain Sandro Bretoni, who is the great character with three personal victories and his performance in the Nations Cup. The debut of Piazza di Siena in the equestrian competition went back to 1922, while in1926 the International Equestrian Federation included the Roman competition into the international calendar.
In 2004 Piazza di Siena has kept his 72nd birthday, stopped only during the years of the second War. In 1960 Piazza di Siena has hosted the development of individual competition of Olympic Games in Rome and CSIO was transferred to Turin. During the Spring in 1998 the competition didn’t take place , because all forces of the Italian Equestrian Sports were concentrated on the organisation of the Equestrian World Games of Rome in 1998, which is the most important competition in the international calendar programmed in Flaminio Stadium because of organisation reasons.
For the Italian equitation in Piazza di Siena many unforgettable pages were written. Unforgettable moments: the gold years of three Italian musketeers, D’Inzeo brothers and Graziano Mancinelli, Olympic Games in Rome, European Championships in 1963, Fifty-year–old in 1982, mythical and recurrent meetings during the post-war period, that have seen the world Champions of riders and horses.
Time after time the Competition didn’t change its imagine, adapting its own features to different needs and it has become the most fascinating world Equestrian Competition.