The Archidado Games, it is historical folkloric demonstration and crossbow competition, represent the ancient rival districts of the Cortona.
The competition is preceded by a gorgeous historic parade with more than 300 participants from the town dress in ancient costumes. The Joust of Archidado traces its origins back to the Middle Ages and commemorates the marriage between Francesco Casali and the noblewoman Antonia Salimbeni, which took place in Cortona in 1397.
Cortona - beautiful ancient town, there is much more to see not just in town but also in surrounded area, beautiful landscape, with olive groves divided by dry stone walls with fine villas surrounded by pines, ilexes and cypresses, farms, monasteries and monumental churches which seem out of place in this isolation.