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Travels to Valpetronio
Set into the hills rising in between Sestri Levante and Deiva Marina, the valley of Valpetronio opens up, rich with traditional products and surprises (...)
|  | “L'infiorata”
Popular festivals make Italians that united country that Massimo D'Azeglio, First Minister during monarchic times, was wishing for after the unity of Italy. And more than any other, the festival that unites the smaller towns scattered between north and south of the peninsula is the Infiorata (...)
|  | The Carnival in Italy
All over Italy, from January's last Sunday to half February there will be appointments and events tied into the Carnival, the popular celebration which can boast a long and continuing National tradition. From Viareggio's Carnival to Aci Reale's, form the Venetian festival to Cento's Carnival (...)
|  | "Viva il Carnevale"
Versilia’s carnival every year sees the parading of allegorical papier-mâché floats within a closed circuit of a few kilometres on the seafront: the opening complex of Gionata Francesconi, nine first category floats; five second category floats as well as ten «masquerades», that is groups of 8 elements with allegorical depictions almost three meters high; ten masks and three district floats (...)
|  | Oil party
Would you buy a bottle of olive oil just looking at the price and looking for the cheapest? If yes, you are in a sharp minority. Olive oil in Italy has conquered a principal place in the offer of quality products, and it is one of the first items of that new "wine-food" tourism that is becoming ever more successful (...)
|  | The Pork festival in Stigliano
The Pork festival in Stigliano is a bloody spectacle, but behind it the ancient relationship between man and nature is concealed (...)
|  | Giostra ad burattum
Every year an appointment with the past, history and wars returns: The Giostra del Saracino in Arezzo, running the last week of June and the first in September (...)
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