The most eagerly awaited event crowning celebrations of Holy Week are the Good Friday Processions,
the White procession in the morning and the Black one in the evening.
The names of the processions derive from the colors worn by the participants, white represents hope of St. Mary searching for her son Jesus,
broken by the black sorrow over [...]
The race, which is one of the most popular Italian customs commences every year on Piazza del Campo in the center of Siena.
There are ten players each one representing different part of the city called Contrada. As there are 17 historical Contradas, the special drawing chooses which of the district can take place in the [...]
This year’s Carnival in Venice is going to be officially started in he evening of Saturday, February 6, 2010 with the performance Arlecchino, Servant of Two Masters, played by Ferruccio Soleri.
There will be ten days of theatre performances, exhibitions, lights, fireworks, and thousands of masks wandering around Venice, and its land counterpartner – Mestre.
The public holidays in Italy are influenced by the feast celebrated by Catholic church, which presence in tradition and customs is visible in Italian everyday’s life.
On Sundays most of the shops are closed, and so the public institutions. The Christmas and Easter feasts last several days and are accompanied by many of local feasts, like [...]
This year edition of Venice Film Festival runs under the banner of Venice Biennale along with other great events such as International Art Exhibition, Music and the Theatre Festival.
The opening ceremony is scheduled on September 2, and the Festiwal is going to last till 12th of September.
Today in the eve of Festival is scheduled [...]
The Palazzo del Cinema at Venice Lido has been opened for the occasion of the fifth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 1937.
Since that time the modernist building hosts the next editions of the festival, which will commence this year for the 66′th time.
It has been enlarged in 1952 with the [...]
Somewhere deep in the waters of Riviera di Levante near Portofino rests an extraordinary bronze sculpture ‘Il Cristo degli Abissi’.
The 2,5 m high sculpture of Christ with head and hands rising in the pose offering peace protects people of the sea: sailors, fishermen and divers.
It has been placed near the spot where in August [...]
