The city of Gubbio hosts an annual feast La Festa dei Ceri dedicated to the city’s patron Saint Ubaldo.
The crowed puller of the celebration is a run with five-meter candles "ceri" bearing statues of Catholic saints St. Ubaldo, St. George and St. Anthony. The weight of each construction is about 400 kg.
Three groups of men accompanying by ringing of bells, tuning pipes and welcome cheers from crowd, carry candles through the streets down to the Basilica of St. Ubaldo. Length of their path is just over four kilometres.
Despite the fact that purpose of the march is to complete the rout as quickly as possible without falling and hesitations, the race is not a real competition, but just a tribute to the Saints. Interestingly, according to the rules, candle carriers are not allowed to overtake each other and should arrive in the order they started.
Honour to participate in the race with candles is inherited from father to son. Ends this day with the overall prayer and magnificent feast where no one remains hungry.
In Italy, in the seaside town of Fano, an unexploded shell of the Second World War was found, which made the local authorities to evacuate more than 20,000 people.
Winter trout festival in Hwacheon-gun is the beautiful place to enjoy winter fishing. Every year thousands of tourists come there to eat fish and relax sledging.
The action will be lasting not only on the water but also in the air. The ceremony of opening will be organized on the 28-th of January twice, at 6 pm with the repetition at 8 pm at the channel Cannaregio.
Madonna della Salute in Venice in Italy (Festa della Madonna della Salute) is the holiday of Virgin Mary della Salute is conducted in the commemoration about liberation from plague of 1630-1631.
The earthquakes that have happened recently in the central part of Italy were felt even at the distance of the hundred kilometers in Rome. The experts warn that the monuments of eld hardly could endure new fluctuations of the crust of earth.
The wine fountain, or ‘fontana del vino’ situated in the city Caldaridi Ortona in Abruzzo along the popular travel route ‘The way of saint Thomas’ (Cammino di San Tommaso).
By Italian calendar, the autumn has started quite recently, however, Italians have already mulled over the warmth and comfort of Christmas holidays with a vengeance.
International Day of chocolate is non-official holiday dedicated to the favorite delicacy of many people on the planet. It is always celebrated on the 13-th September annually. This holiday is the wonderful reason to take a piece of chocolate, even if you try cutting down on sweets.
The citizens of Spain admire festivals where they can look at others and show their advantages. It is worth to recall at least their numerous battles with food including La Tomatina as one of the most famous ones. However, at the festival El Cascamorras nobody throws food. Instead, people out stains onto themselves with oily substance and try to stain others.
New mayor of Turin Chiara Appendino reported about their intentions to promote vegetarianism and vegan diets as the preferential directions of activity of its administration.
Roman Coliseum has been cleaned of filth and soot in the course of large-scale restoration which has been lasting for three years. All this time the construction has been opened for public, as Associated Press reports.
On June 9 the International Friendship Day is observed. This is not an official holiday and it was introduced quite recently. However, it has a very noble goal to remind people how much their beloved ones mean for them, and to give a chance to spend an evening with them.
