The Oldest Carnival in Italy
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It begins with crostini neri di milza and fettunta (grilled bread topped with new olive oil); followed by homemade pasta, such as pici pasta with nana (duck) and ribollita; then stewed rabbit and Chianina beef steak served with pulezze (turnip greens), fagioli all’uccelletto (white beans in a tomato and sage sauce) and stewed black cabbage; and ends with trecce, a typical sweet carnival tradition from the Chiana Valley region, washed down with a good Chianti Colli Arezzo. This is the Carnival menu that colors, along with the parade of floats, known as crazy floats since 1600, the small Tuscan village of Foiano della Chiana, until mid-March. This is where, in fact, one of the oldest Carnival celebration in Italy is held, now in its 472nd year.
On 08.03.11
Visiting the Crotti
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Autumn is the time of the grape harvest and of "Andèm a Cròt" (Visiting the Crotti). This typical event in Valchiavenna, in the Sondorio province in Italy, on the border of Switzerland, is a secular tradition, which each year, in September, is marked by the Crotti Festival. The origins of Chiavenna, one of the best-preserved historic village centers in Northern Italy, explains what these Crotti, better known as “natural refrigerators,” really are.
On 22.10.10
August Holiday in Abruzzo with ...
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It's said that the festival of the "biblical living four," is an event halfway between the sacred and the profane. Each year in Orsogna, a small center in the Chieti province, in Abruzzo, it's celebrated for Easter and occurs again in the summer to light up the nights of the August holiday. It has to do with the Sagra dei Talami (Talami Festival), a sort of traveling play of ancient origins, which recalls the "nuptial Talamo," It's from there, in effect, which the secular tradition starts; the talami, simple wooden altars remade and enhanced with living scenes from the Old and New Testaments, which, starting at 10 pm, spanning from August 15 to 16, for a couple of hours parades through the town's districts, coming from seven different ones.
On 30.07.10
The Virgin Islands Carnival
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Compared to other Carnivals, which are celebrated in the month of February in the rest of the word, the Carnival of the American Virgin Islands occurs late in the year. This Carnival celebration, in particular the one in St. John, which begins on the last week of June and continues through the first week of July, is a very important event that reaches its height on Independence Day. It’s a mix of similar elements of carnival events that proceed it on the other two islands of the archipelago, St. Croix and St. Thomas, which celebrate a truly special event: Emancipation Day, the anniversary of the freeing of the slaves.
On 16.06.10
The Brazilian Cavalhadas
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Every year, 50 days after Easter week, during a popular festival dedicated to the Divine Holy Spirit, the city of Pirenopolis stages a kind of open air theater, a very characteristic medieval battle: Cavalhadas. The city is found in central Brazil, in the state of Goias, one of the most productive in terms of agro-business. This city, with its great heritage of art and nature, a point of reference for regional tourism thanks to its colonial buildings and mountains rich in waterfalls, is consumed by one of the most distinctive medieval reenactments.
On 14.05.10
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