This month has come to an end.
As always I find myself doing a mental check of what has happened to me, than I spent cho.
The other years we had already exceeded the Carnival, with celebrations and confetti, masks and sweet and this year, yet we must be fully involved.
But what is it and why we celebrate this holiday?
Speaking at notional means abolish meat, 'cause once marked the farewell banquet with meat, which was held just before Lent. The word denotes a particular time of year, which took place since ancient rites and traditions.
Following the festival has developed a coating ' paramount importance at home and in their collective imagination: the imagination, energy, spontaneity and creative folk have found symbolic expression that goes well beyond mere celebration.
It develops as the Carnival "Feast of the people", the place of rice and madness, the joke, the materiality and abundance. In the party applies all the freedom and everything is permissible ". All are stripped of their individuality to merge and blend into the fray of the party.
Today is a holiday celebrated in most of the world, in ways which actually also very diversified, is celebrated in countries of Christian tradition. Carnival has always been the children's festival, but also affects adults. Indeed, perhaps the way to the big return of children happy and carefree, taking advantage to justify the fun and antics.
traditionally Catholic countries, the Carnival begins with the Sunday Septuagesima; ends the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent. The duration is therefore of two weeks and two days.
But the real stars of the Carnival Masks have always been, especially classics. It seems that the oldest is Harlequin, a native of Bergamo. From Venice was the mask of Pulcinella Pantalone and Naples, followed by Dr. Balanzone of Bologna. The other famous characters of the Italian Carnival come from Torino (Gianduja), Florence (Stenterello), even from Bergamo (Brighella) from Venice and the only female character who is most famous Columbine.
The Carnival of Venice, the Carnival of Viareggio and the Historic Carnival of Ivrea are considered among the most important mondo.Il Carnival of Venice is known for the beauty of the costumes, the pageantry of the celebration in the magical atmosphere of the lagoon and consists of several days full of events of various kinds: art exhibitions, fashion shows, plays etc. The Viareggio Carnival is one of the largest and most popular carnivals in the world.