Editing Arezzo (section)

==Culture==
===Festivals===
Arezzo is home to an annual medieval festival called the [[Saracen Joust]] (''Giostra del Saracino''). In this, "knights" on horseback representing different areas of the town charge at a wooden target attached to a carving of a Saracen king and score points according to accuracy. Virtually all the town's people dress up in medieval costume and enthusiastically cheer on the competitors.

Arezzo hosts an annual popular music and culture festival each July, called [[Arezzo Wave]]. Publicly funded, it attracts bands of high repute and attendees from all over Europe and North America and features some literary and film expositions.

Arezzo also hosts an annual international competition of choral singing Concorso Polifónico [[Guido d'Arezzo]] (''International Guido d'Arezzo Polyphonic Contest'').

===In popular culture===
Arezzo has a starring role in [[Roberto Benigni]]'s [[Italian cinema|film]] ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' (''La vita è bella'', 1997), which won three Academy Awards (Best Foreign Film, Best Actor, Best Original Score).{{cn|date=December 2024}} It is the place in which the main characters live before they are shipped off to a [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[concentration camp]]

Arretium was used in the PC game'' [[Rome: Total War]]'' as the Capital of the Roman Faction of [[House of Julii|Julii]].