Traditions
by John Bensalhia |
Spring hots up with a slew of events and festivals taking place this May. John Bensalhia looks at some of the most notable.
If April showed signs of warming…
by Silvia Donati |
Piazza della Signoria in Florence will be taken over by a flurry of colors and flags tomorrow, when the 21st edition of the Trofeo Marzocco is held.
The event…
by Katia Amore |
On 23 April, several Italian towns celebrate the Festa di San Giorgio. Born in Lydda, Roman Palestine, he was a soldier in the Roman army…
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One of the most picturesque Easter processions in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ takes place on the beautiful island of Ischia.
Every year on Easter Sunday, along the main street of…
by Katia Amore |
Scarcelle in Apulia, Scarceddi in Basilicata, Palummeddi in Sicily. There is no Easter without the traditional egg bread shaped in all sorts of ways containing…
by Katia Amore |
The Via Crucis devotion (Stations of the Cross or Way of the Cross) has been practiced by Roman Catholics for many centuries. It commemorates the passion and…
by Katia Amore |
The Holy Week traditions in Sicily are an incredible combination of religious festivals with archaic celebrations of the rebirth of nature, of spring over…
by Barry Lillie |
The 8th of March is International Women’s Day or, as it’s more commonly called in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, la Festa della Donna, where the importance of women is celebrated by…
by Silvia Donati |
Tomorrow, Sunday, the Bandierai degli Uffizi in Florence and the Sbandieratori de L 'Aquila will celebrate their twinship with a double performance in Piazza…
by Katia Amore |
It's carnival time in ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, time for crazy costumes, spooky masks, spectacular processions of floats and handfuls of flying coriandoli (confetti).
We chose…
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