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 [...]
There are three types of Italian restaurants:
ristorante – the most expensive one, with white table clothes, a wine list and more formal clothes
trattoria – usually small place run by the family,more casual, cheaper but still good meals with paper table clothes and the wine sold by the decanter
