- Access to some private posts is from the square. To enter the square a ticket of 5€ is requested, and it will be provided at the meeting point. The passage from the gate to the square is going to be very crowded, there is police control and you might be frisked. This is the less pleasant part of the day but it does not take long, as there aren’t more than 30 meters from the access to the square to the door of the private positions.

- The best positions to follow the Giostra are those from where you can see the Saracen’s shield from the front, so that you can try to tell the points being scored. Anyway impacts are just a portion of a second: in order to be able to comment the official result (and to answer the questions of the people in the square, who impatiently ask those staying higher positions if they can tell what the score is), it’s better to have a TV set close by.

- In June positions are typically accessible at 9:15pm, in September at 4:45pm. The historical parade lasts about an hour; nobody can tell how long the Giostra will last, because in case of draws it goes ahead until one beats the others. Two hours and half can be considered as an average duration of the whole event.

- The atmosphere in town during the days of the Giostra, although being different, never becomes so intense as in Siena on Palio days. Still the four Quartieri are very busy organising different events and glorious open-air dinners: anybody willing to participate is welcome, it’s enough to show the appropriate respect and enthusiasm, and nobody will be a stranger anymore.