By: Lia Contesso
Submitted: 2011-01-13 03:07:57 | Word Count: 475
If you are looking for events and feasts in the internet, but also for pubs, restaurants and hotels, and you wish to find opinions of people who already saw those places, now it’s easy: thousands of users give their contribute writing suggestions and personal opinions.
Before booking a hotel you can have a look among the offers of trips and the feedbacks of the hotels in the area you want to go to, looking for the best one, to be (almost) sure to avoid bad surprises.
Of course, you can also find offers for ferry boats and low cost flights to reach your destination trying to cut the costs as much as possible. Feasts in Italy are very common and frequent during the whole year, particularly during the summertime: every town and city has got its own feast, to celebrate its saint or a particular event.
For example, there are feasts to celebrate grape harvest, strawberries, melon, potatoes, but also frogs, cod fish, wild boar, boiled meat, broccoli, mushrooms, panettone and pig. But the list is really very long: fantasy has no limits, and there are hundreds of reasons to organize a feast!
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The origin of the feasts is to be found in the Ancient Rome times; in fact, “feast” in Italian is “sagra”, which comes from the Latin “sacrum”, which means “sacred”: they obviously were religious and were made in front of the temples or, in the Christian times, of the churches – this is the reason why the churchyards are called “sagrati” in Italian.
If in the Roman period feasts included animal sacrifices to honour the gods, nowadays they include carousels, stands, gastronomic tents and music: you can go in the modern feasts to have a looks at the objects in the stalls, from food to clothing, but also to see people, listen to live music and to dine with friends.
After all, nowadays feasts can be, mostly in the summertime, a good occasion to stay out with friends, choosing the right place and night depending on the group on the stage. But beside this, their function is that of keep traditions alive, like local food, patron saint and other events of the place: hence, feasts are fundamental to keep traditions and make young people know history.
Some feasts, in fact, are even in costume, and actually give representations of historical events which are fundamental for the history of the place, completely recreating the scene with costumes, tents and objects: a dive in past times which fascinates everyone, adults and children.
Hence, there’s nothing to do but to look for near and far feasts, and to choose the most curious ones to see during the whole year: start searching!
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This article was written by Lia Contesso, with support from viaggi last minute.
