In the Italian city Cinzano nearby Lazio the annual festival of flower carpets opens.
This feast of colour and flavour originated in the 18th century on a religious basis and is closely associated with the holiday of Corpus Christi.
During four days the entire city from the main square Via Belardo to St. Mary's della Cima Church will be densely paved with floral carpets, decorated with various ornaments of geometric patterns, biblical scenes, folklore images.
All parts of plants are use - petals, buds, seeds and stems - and human imagination creates unique works of art. The effect is stunning.
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.
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.
Ice-cream in Italy meets a ready market, especially its local kind called as gelato. Italians love and appreciate gelato so much that they would not mind dedicating the entire festival to this dessert.
The work of Banksy ‘Madonna with pistol’ has been preserved being put under glass window. As the web-portal ‘Italy in Russian’ reports, it is the only creation of the most famous street artist in Italy.
