Festivals, Holidays, in Italy

Italy has interesting festivals every month of the year. Here is information about popular and unusual festivals in Italy listed by month as well as Italian holidays, annual special events, and music festivals. Attending a festival is a great way to experience Italian culture and enhance your vacation in Italy.

1. January

January starts with New Year's and Epiphany celebrations. Italian festivals in January include Feast Days of San Antonio Abate and San Sebastiano, Il Palio di Sant'antonio Abate, and the Fair of Sant'Orso, a woodcarvers fair, that's been held annually for about 1000 years.

2. February

Carnevale, Italian carnival, tops the list of February festivals all over Italy. In Catania, Sicily, a big festival held on Saint Agatha's Feast Day is the second largest religious procession in the world. Other February Italian festivals include Saint Biago Day, Saint Faustino's Day, and an Almond blossom fair.

3. March

Songs and chocolate highlight March festivals in Italy. Two interesting March festivals are the Marriage of Venice to the Sea and the Palio dei Somari, a donkey race held on Saint Joseph's Feast Day, also known as Father's Day in Italy. Spring festivals start in March and Easter sometimes falls in March, too.

4. April

In April you'll find a frog race, Rome's birthday, the festival of San Marco, and Saint George's Day. There's an Italian national holiday on April 25 and Easter often falls in April. Food festivals are starting to be more plentiful, too.

5. May

May in Italy is a good time to find spring festivals. You'll find flower festivals, food and wine festivals, medieval reenactments, and events celebrating rituals of spring. Unusual festivals include the Wedding of the Trees and the Snake Handlers' Procession. May Day is a national Italian holiday.

6. June

Summer brings many festivals to Italy. Look for posters announcing a festa or sagra as you travel around Italy. Festa della Repubblica on June 2 is a national Italian holiday and the Feast Day of San Giovanni is celebrated many places in Italy. Some Italian towns have outdoor music concerts beginning in June, too.

7. July

July is one of the best months for festivals in Italy. Sienna has its famous Palio and one of my favorites is the Festa de la Madonna Bruna. You'll find food festivals, medieval festivals, and lots of fireworks including the World Fireworks Championships. There are also many music festivals in July.

8. August

Ferragosto (Assumption Day) is an Italian national holiday on August 15. In August you'll find local festivals throughout Italy, where you can often sample inexpensive regional food. Many Italians take vacations in August, often to the seaside, so you're more likely to find festivals there. You may run across a medieval festival that includes people dressed in medieval costumes. There are also many outdoor music performances in August.

9. September

In September Italians return from their vacations. Many festivals take place the first Sunday in September as summer comes to an end. You'll still find local food festivals throughout Italy during the month of September, a great place to mingle and sample regional food. Major September festivals include Venice's historic regatta, the Feast of San Gennaro in Naples, and the Feast Day of San Michele held in many places in Italy.

10. October

October is a great month for Italian food festivals, especially mushrooms, chestnuts, chocolate, and truffles. On October weekends, you'll find fall food festivals and wine harvest celebrations all over Italy. Although Halloween is not such a big celebration in Italy, it is becoming more popular and you may find Halloween festivals, especially in the larger cities.

11. November

November is the heart of the white truffle season and you'll find truffle fairs and chestnut festivals. All Saints Day is in November and Rome has a big festival of music, theater, and dance.

12. December

December celebrations and events in December revolve around Christmas. In December Italians celebrate the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception, Santa Lucia Day, Christmas Eve and Day, Saint Stephen's Day, and several other saints' days. There's also a wild boar festival in Tuscany and a festival of gospel music in Umbria.

Comic/Cartoon story happened in Italy

"Restaurant Paradise"----Japanese Cartoon

This cartoon story is happening in Rome .The restaurant is a popular urban restaurant "bear house".The story is about 6 gentlmen with a young girl.
Through this cartoon,you can see Italian life style. You are also enjoying this nice cartoon.

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ITALY FOOD AND DRINK

Italy drinks

Italian coffee

Italian ice cream

Simple dishes, looks refreshing, delicious, light, good for our heathy.

From the menu, the Italian people are very focused on eating, a lot of vegetable dishes, and dishes are also a lot of the tricks, not greasy, a lot of healthy green food and, more importantly, it is also very cheap prices, not only taste good, and price concessions.

This is the pasta, eat pasta the most, I also quite like to eat, and look like an ordinary type face are not the same, but also difficult than regular pasta, is also special, so taste is not like the taste,Because of the special, so in China, has attracted a lot of people eat,Spaghetti noodles are not in the way we eat in real life face, speculation, and soup, the practice of pasta, noodles have excellent hot water, and its face to face than China, so when we put the meat, tomatoes, salt, onion, and eggs,it's differnet.

This is the Italian soup,the taste of soup to acid-based,but very delicious.

The pizza is the most eat Italian food, they have differnet tastes.Many people in China like to eat, not only its variety and taste is also rather special.When you are hungry when eating a PISSA, will feel very comfortable. PISSA is becoming indispensable to people's lives in food.

Italy Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010

09.05.08 Italy Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 began to establish.
One of design inspirations is from Shanghai game----" game paddle"
Theme: Dream City,Human City “理想之城，人之城”

Architects: Giampaolo Imbrighi

Modeling highlight: function module to facilitate the reorganization of

Exhibition Location: Expo Area C

Italy Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010 are made up 20 functional modules, representing 20 regions of Italy, like a miniature city of Italy.When people are walking in the Italy Pavillion ,this feeling like walking in the Shanghai street or Italy spuare.

The project proposes a building which integrates a typical model of the Italian urban building, with the architectural structure of the Chinese construction game called Shanghai.

The pavilion covers an area of 3.600 square metres and is 18 metres high. Inside it is divided into irregular sections of different dimensions, connected by a steel bridge structure where the connecting galleries are visible. If needed, the structure can be dismantled and reconstructed, on a smaller scale, in another part of the city.

The different sections of the building make up a geometrical variety symbolizing the tradition and regional customs which define the Italian identity: a type of mosaic of which each of the parts show a single picture. The form also highlights the topographic complexity of Italian cities, with its numerous short narrow roads and alleys which suddenly open onto a large square, a characteristic which can also be found in the traditional Chinese urban centres. A psychophysical effect of comfort is given by an internal garden, the presence of water and natural light which spreads throughout the area across the patios and by the walls.

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Festivals, Holidays, and Special Events by Month

Italy has interesting festivals every month of the year. Here is information about popular and unusual festivals in Italy listed by month as well as Italian holidays, annual special events, and music festivals. Attending a festival is a great way to experience Italian culture and enhance your vacation in Italy

Easter in Italy

while you probably won't see the Easter bunny if you're in Italy for Easter, you will find some interesting Italian Easter celebrations. Like all holidays in Italy, Easter, Pasqua in Italian, has its share of rituals and traditions. The Monday following Easter, la Pasquetta is also a holiday throughout Italy. While the days before Easter in Italy include solemn processions and masses, Easter is a joyous celebration.

2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy

Information about 2009 Mediterranean Games in Italy. Information about where the games are held in Italy. Find out more about the mediterranean games. Italy hosts the mediterranean games or giochi del mediterraneo in summer, 2009.

International Film Festivals in Italy

The Venice film festival is Italy's most important film festival but several other international film festivals are held in Italy, too. Here are Italy's major international film festivals. Even if you're not going to the film festival, it's a great chance for celebrity spotting.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Special Events by Month

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question:

a:What is Italian urban culture?

b:en,I think culture and urban change in contemporary Italy.

Urban Italian is the recipes that one of New York’s best young chefs cooks in his own kitchen: a cookbook full of soulful, sophisticated food and delicious stories.

I want to recommend a book.This isn’t one of those fancy chef books you can’t actually cook from in a real kitchen without a crew or special equipment: Gwen’s no chef, but she can make every one of these recipes, and if she can do it, so can you.

a:What do you think is the culture symbol of Shanghai ?

b:Chinese Cultural Center and Kearny Street Workshop is the Present Tense Biennial.

And I know a chinese Present Tense Biennial.Cui Fei is a Chinese artist that exhibits actively in the United States. The installation has the appearance of a calligraphic manuscript with its stroke-like sense of movement. Upon closer examination however, one realizes that each “character” is a unique sculpture informed by the natural formation of twigs. Language and its conventional, evolving nature is a running theme in this show and Cui Fei’s lyrical installation poignantly explores the illusory and mutable qualities of written word in relation to the timeless structure of nature.Indeed, the works produced here by artists young and old, of various ethnic backgrounds, conjure up a sense of collective nostalgia, of loss, of disjunction–however, that an exhibition like this exists and opens itself up to public discussion lends the work in this show an over arching bid for hope and critical engagement.

a:Not only does each region have its own style, but each community and each valley has a different way of cooking as well.I think it’s funny.can you tell me,why?

b:ok .But do you know.Not only cooking is different.Every town has a distinctive way of making sausage, special kinds of cheese and wine, and a local type of bread. If you ask people, even in the same area, how to make pasta sauce, they will all have different answers.

And many non-Italians identify Italian cooking with a few of its most popular dishes, like pizza and spaghetti. People often express the opinion that Italian cooking is all pretty much alike. However, those who travel through Italy notice differences in eating habits between cities, even those only a few miles apart.

a:I know Italians love music. Music is part of your lives.I want to know where are you listen to music in shanghai?

b:Do you know, I live chinese music too.It's magic.And I am very lucky.The Shanghai Gesture, is currently enjoying it's run at The Julia Miles Theater through May 17th. The theater is located at 424 W 55th Street and you can go to The Shanghai Gesture official website for cast and ticket information.

a:Fanny.Good news.Can you tell me the Italian lifestyle of your impression?

b:Italians are warm, welcoming people who love to relax, celebrate and socialise with family and friends. And celebration and relaxation usually take place around the table either at home or in a restaurant, where they can enjoy the traditions of the Italian cuisine.Italians have a passion for eating but also for talking.

a:OK THANK YOU VERY MUCH.