Sports originating in Italy

early form of football that originated during the Middle Ages in Italy and is still played in Florence

Tamburello, named Tambass in Piedmont, is a court game invented in the northern provinces of Italy during the 16th century. It is a modification of the ancient game of pallone col bracciale, bearing the same general relation to it as Squash does to Racquets. Tamburello is also similar in form to tennis.

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thumb |An image of bocce embedded in a medieval manuscript thumb|An Argentine family playing bocce in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, thumb|Bocce play in Cape Coral, Florida, United States in 2007 thumb|Bocce being played thumb|A typical bocce set ' (, or , ), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, bocci, or boccie', is a ball sport belonging to the boules family of games. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French , with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire. Bocce is played around Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe,

boules-type game

Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically, they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages and thus often involve horse racing, archery, jousting, crossbow shooting, and similar medieval sports. Once purely a matter of local rivalries, many have now become events that are staged with an eye to visitors and foreign tourists. thumb|right|400x400px|The Palio di Siena in July 2010

Volata ("flow") is a code of football developed and promoted by Italian fascists for a brief period during the late 1920s and early 1930s, in an attempt to displace sports with non-Italian origins, such as association football and rugby union.

Pallone (; Italian for an inflated ball, source of the English word balloon) is the name of several traditional ball games, played in all regions of Italy, with few differences in regulations.

type of climbing that assesses the ability to ascend walls in three main categories: difficulty, bouldering, and speed.

traditional Tuscan ball game