Italian festivals

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Italy is a country well known for its festivals and many tourists attend festivals in order to experience the Italian culture and traditions. [1] It has been claimed that there are fewer days in the calendar year than there are festivals.[ citation needed ] Different categories of Italian festivals include: Italian food, cultures, traditions, wine, art, religion, music and sports. [2]

Italy republic in Southern Europe

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

Festival organised series of acts and performances

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.

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Festivals

Article TitleFestival NameFestival Type(s)Description
Calcio Storico (also known as Calcio Fiorentino)Calcio StoricoSport - Football, Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre

Steeped in almost 500 years of tradition and described loosely as a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix - Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the sight of blood.

Orange Battle at Carnevale di Ivrea (Battle of the Oranges) Carnevale di IvreaBizarre, Carnival, Party.

Unlike La Tomatina, the ammunition at Italy's Carnevale di Ivrea's orange battle doesn't get squished before it is hurled in the streets. It may, however, become smushed after colliding with the helmets that keep faces from leaking their own natural juices.

Umbria Jazz Festival Umbria Jazz FestivalMusic - JazzThe Algiers Brass Band from New Orleans is marching down Corso Vannucci, the main street of Perugia in Italy, led by a grand marshal with purple feathers
Palio di Siena Palio di SienaHorse raceA horse race that is held twice each year on the 2nd July and the 16th August, in Siena, Italy.

Sport - Water, Traditional, Historical

In the Afternoon on June 17, the eve of feast day of Rainerius who is the patron saint of Pisa, the buildings along the Arno River are transformed into a fantastical fairyland setting.

Rainerius Italian saint

Saint Rainerius is the patron saint of Pisa and of travellers. His feast day is June 17. His name may also be spelled Raynerius, Rainerius, Rainier, Raineri, Rainieri, Ranieri, Raniero, or Regnier.

Pisa Comune in Tuscany, Italy

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city of over 91,104 residents contains more than 20 other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and various bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.

Article Title: Game of the Bridge

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Bizarre, Re-enactments, Historical

Rival teams from different quarters of Pisa fought for symbolic possession of a bridge over the Arno River. In those times, the games often degenerated into brutal and bloody man to man fighting.

Article Title: Battle of the Oranges

Festival of San Giovanni

Carnival, Bizarre, Party

That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, which substitute stones. Italy exceeds its production quota of oranges as agreed within the EEC (the European Economic Community), so the excess needs to be destroyed (just to keep up the retail price). My co-citizens cooperate in the difficult path towards a unified Europe by helping to smash some oranges.

European Economic Community international organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957

The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states. It was created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957. Upon the formation of the European Union (EU) in 1993, the EEC was incorporated and renamed as the European Community (EC). In 2009 the EC's institutions were absorbed into the EU's wider framework and the community ceased to exist.

Article Title: Sagra di'Pinolo - The Pine Nut Festival

Festival Name: Sagra di'Pinolo - The Pine Nut Festival

Liam

The place was Chiesanuova, the time was mid-June, and the celebration was the Sagra di'Pinolo—the Pine Nut festival.

Chiesanuova castello in San Marino

Chiesanuova is a minor municipality of San Marino. It has a population of 1,143 inhabitants in an area of 5.46 km².

References

  1. Bakerjian, Martha. "Festivals in Italy". http://goitaly.about.com/od/festivalsandevents/tp/top-festivals.htm . Retrieved 13 August 2014.External link in |website= (help)
  2. "Top Travel Service". http://www.toptravelservice.com.au/blog/top-10-festivals-in-italy/ . Retrieved 13 August 2014.External link in |website= (help)
  3. "The Game of the Bridge - Il Gioco del Ponte - PISA - ITALIA - Pisa events". www.pisaonline.it.