New Year in Italy
Meet the long-awaited winter holidays in Italy- undoubtedly, a great idea! At this time, all Italian cities, like many other European cities, are transformed and become even more vivid and colorful. In Rome, decorate not only Christmas trees, but also the facades of buildings, houses, and every Italian family hastens to decorate their house or apartment balcony with garlands with red ribbons.
New Year and Christmas in the representation of the Italians
Italy is a country dominated byCatholic Church. Yes, of course, the presence of the Vatican - the residence of the Pope, already says a lot. We touched upon this topic not by chance, but to explain one feature: Catholic Christmas in Italy is an exclusively family holiday, which in no way can be said about the New Year!
Italians even have an interesting saying: celebrate Christmas in the circle of relatives, and only the New Year and Easter - wherever you want. Therefore, the end of the outgoing year and the beginning of the new Italians celebrate with a grand scale. The noise and din begins in the streets from the evening of December 31 and lasts, perhaps, until dawn.
New Year traditions of Italians
For the coming year to bring great luck inalmost every inhabitant of Italy wears underwear of red color. In the New Year's Eve, clothes of various red shades are usually sold in all stores. New Year for Italians is the beginning of everything new: a new life, changes for the better, and perhaps even a new love. Therefore, any Italian tries before the holiday to get rid of old things and buy new ones.
Previously, even went the custom to throw everything awayworn things out of the window, but then because of the risk of injury, the tradition gradually came to naught. The similarity with the German celebration of the New Year is that the New Year's dinner is called "Sylvester" - in honor of the medieval priest, who died on December 31. Every Italian family tries to cook 13 dishes, but not all adhere to such an interesting custom and can be limited to only 6-7 dishes.
Escort the Old Year, eating pork legs. Prepared all sorts of traditional Italian dishes: torrona, pannetone, ricarelia and many others. What is interesting, the Italians main drink on the New Year's table is Italian wine. To drink champagne, and even more so, French - a sign of bad taste in their understanding.
Where in Italy is best to celebrate the New Year
This question depends on your ownpreferences. You want to spend the New Year without snow, but at the same time note it very vividly, fun - then you can choose Rome, romantic Venice, no less fairy Florence or Tuscany. In the latter there is a custom to kindle bonfires and dance next to them until the morning. In Rome for the New Year is always very noisy, a sea of positive emotions and bright fireworks.
New Year's Eve in the Italian capital usuallycollects a crowd of enthusiastic residents and tourists on the main square - Piazza del Popolo. And the most beautiful salutes are in Naples. There is another Italy - the northern, mountain skiing. Perhaps this is what you wanted to see on the New Year: beautiful high mountains, a cozy wooden cabin in the mountains, cheerful tourists and breathtaking ski trails.
All this is available in the Italian ski resortsresorts. Of course, it will be nice to combine, for example, a trip to Rome and Venice with the Alpine resort. In order to fly to Italy for the celebration of the New Year, you need to issue a Schengen visa and it is advisable to pre-purchase air tickets until their cost is relatively low. The big plus of the Schengen visa is that you can visit other European countries besides Italy or, having issued a visa to another country of the Schengen zone, to fly to Italy for a winter holiday.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
