Carnival has always been the craziest party of the year and in Tuscany there are ample opportunities to let yourself be carried away by the mood of pranks, silliness and merriment of this special moment.
Tuscany boasts an exceptional tradition of parades and genuinely spectacular celebrations. What follows is a brief list of the main Carnival celebrations in this region.
Posted by Sorrento Lingue, Italian language school in Sorrento.
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Sorrento, the town where our Institute is located, gives a lot of importance to religious holidays year round. As the holidays begin you feel the spirit in the air as you walk through the streets because the holiday of Christmas is celebrated in a very intense and evocative way in a fascinating synthesis between the sacred and the profane.
Monteveglio, Granarolo, L’Aquila, Lucca and Carimate are the first transition towns in Italy. But what are transition towns?
The Transition Towns movement was founded in England in 2006 in the town of Totnes by Rob Hopkins.
It is a cultural movement engaged in shifting the current economic model in our industrialised society, which is profoundly reliant on a large availability of cheap oil and the logic of resource consumption, to a new model characterised by respect for the environment, living without oil and a high level of flexibility.
The National Chestnut Fair of Cuneo, that for four whole days will fill the historic town centre of this provincial capital with the tastes, smells and colours of the hundreds of exhibitors from all over Piedmont, and beyond.
The International Rome Film Festival returns from October 15th to October 23rd 2009 with films, retrospectives, encounters, exhibitions, concerts and the attendance of great national and international stars.
The pulsating heart of the Festival will be the Auditorium Parco della Musica - designed by Renzo Piano - and the neighboring Cinema Village.
The historic rooms of the Tamerici Spa in Montecatini Terme will give hospitality to the exhibition The New after the Sketch: origins and success of Tuscan Naturalism, from 16th July 2009 to 18th January 2010.
A hundred works of art have been chosen among the most famous and the never seen Italian public and private collections. These works will rebuild the creative itinerary of a particular period of a celebrated 19th century group of Italian artists (the Macchaiaioli), such as Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini and Cristiano Banti and others who, in the last quarter of the 19th century, took part in the process of the intellectual and artistic reform of the time and caused a proper aesthetic revolution.
The National Park of the Valgrande Valley was founded in 1992. It extends in the heart of the Verbano Cusio Ossola province, just 100 Km away from Milan. It is the largest wild area of Italy, with a parched and scarcely reachable territory, a unique valley where endless woods, clear waters and undisputed silences walk everywhere with you. Anyway, the Val Grande is also history, it is the long account of a civilization made of shepherds and foresters that we can discover through the vestiges that have been left in centuries. This is why the Val Grande before being a park, is a valley of great emotions.
“Cheese – The shapes of milk”, a biennal event organized by Slowfood is coming back to Bra, in Piedmont, from 18th to 21st September 2009.
This festival has reached its seven edition and is followed by a wide public of fans. Then it is a reference point for the milk dairy industry craftsmen and its strong possibility to spread the history and the specificities of every kind of cheese, from the dairy animals to the finished products.
The event “The Gods’ sounds”, that began on 6th May 2009, was born from an idea of the Pelagos Association and the Praiano Municipality and now it has reached its second edition. This festival combines the passion for music and the love for the environment through a series of classical and contemporary music concerts realized along the celebrated and enchanting Gods Path, in the Regional Park of the Lattari Mounts (Amalfi Coast).
The Cortona Sun Festival, that has reached its seventh edition, presents a rich programme which includes concerts and daily events and combines music with gastronomic specialities, wine with literature, fine arts with films.
By now this festival has become a regular appointment for the most important international musicians, as well as the first event of its kind, which can revive a very high level music and combine it with the pure celebration of the Italian “dolce vita”.
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