Who Wins Gubbio’s Corsa dei Ceri?

As an Umbrian newspaper put it the day after Gubbio’s May 15th la Corsa dei Ceri, the “winner” is the festival itself. La passione of the eugubini triumphs that day: it’s palpable. Feting St. Ubaldo, patron saint of Gubbio and 12th-c. bishop, la Corsa (“race”) of three saints crowning huge wooden pyramidical structures (Ceri) is…