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Pisa celebrates the new year
New year's eve, the traditional appointment of San Silvestro that is celebrated with large dinners and bottles of bubbly, in Pisa does not happen on the 31st of December. No, the Pisa New Year's Eve is celebrated the 25th of March, nine months ahead of the traditional one
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A kick into the past
Football, as a discipline albeit non properly sportive, but as a moment of show is born in Florence, in the period when "Florentia" was a Roman colony. A game which used to be the main attraction to celebrate particular festive occasions or extraordinary events (...) |
Giostra ad burattum
Every year an appointment with the past, history and wars returns: The Giostra del Saracino in Arezzo, running the last week of June and the first in September (...) |
Dinner in Medieval times
Imagine roaming at night, lighted by oil torches, between narrow and winding alleys surrounded by stone houses, among strange figures of armigers, witches, jugglers, fire-eaters and snake charmers. All this can happen if you chance being in Vicopisano (...) |
The Game of the Bridge
A show you cannot miss, set like a pearl among the stirring and stately decorations of the Lungarno, where the challenge is repeated and sublimates itself in the great palaces games of light reflecting in the waters of the river. The Gioco del Ponte returns every last Sunday of the month of June. The next clash will take place on the 30th June 2002 (...) |
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