The game of Calcio Fiorentino has ancient origins. The first news of a recreational activity practiced with a ball you have in the Homeric poems. The Greeks practiced a game called "Sferomachia", which with the sequence of years was adopted by the Roman legionaries turning it into training method for warriors, the Harpastum.
The game of Florentine Football is now a challenge between the four districts of the city. The recovery in 1930 has decreed the historicity of the event.
Matches take place with the costumes of the sixteenth century in memory and recollection of a particular moment in the history of Florence. On 17 February 1530, the square of Santa Croce in Florence became the scene of one of the most important challenges of the Florentine Republic Emperor Charles V, when the population besieged for many months by the imperial troops, tried his hand at a game of football, giving the 'impression of not considering the Empire army worthy of attention.
