Hi! Not many, AFAIK. To my Italian followers: If I’m forgetting any, please feel free to add more holidays.
Ognissanti/Tutti i Santi (All Saints’ Day) – 1st November – Italians remember their dead with visits to the cemetery, usually bringing fresh flowers or candles. Because it’s a national holiday, workers usually have a day off. Ognissanti is also the holiday where people with no name day can receive small gifts or name day wishes.
Immacolata Concezione or just L’Immacolata (Immaculate Conception) – 8th December – Italians don’t do anything exceptional on this day, though maybe special masses are celebrated. Usually when L’Immacolata falls either on a Friday or Monday, Italians talk about Il ponte dell’Immacolata (literally “the Immaculate bridge”), which is basically a long weekend. Sometimes Italians spend this holiday visiting different cities or Christmas markets in their towns. Some cities and towns will also usually hold festivals called sagre, which revolve entirely about food. Public bonfires can also be held.
Vigilia di Natale (Christmas eve) – 24th December – Italians usually have a pre-Christmas dinner and wait until midnight to open or exchange their gifts. Others open them on Christmas morning.
Natale (Christmas) –25th December – More food!
Santo Stefano(Saint Stephen’s day) – 26th December – We hope you haven’t died two days before because.. More food!
Vigilia di Capodanno (New Year’s eve) and Capodanno (New Year’s day) – 31st December and 1st January – More food! Also there is your entire family and every cousin you have never met! The night between the 31st and the 1st is called Notte di San Silvestro.
Towns and cities will usually organise various activities like bonfires, free museum entries, food festivals, concerts, Christmas markets, etc.
Halloween isn’t an Italian holiday and it isn’t particularly felt as such. Children might dress up and go out in their costume though. Mediaset bombards us with Halloween-themed vintage US American movies.
kdrama posters: moon lovers, scarlet heart ryeo edition part two
↳ “there was a court lady the king loved. this is the song they say made him fall in love with her.”
“i would like to hear it.”
“the days that pass by painfully. in the stillness of the day and wind, because i like the sunshine, i smile. passing by so busily, even among those heartless people, because i like my friends, i smile. if i find a place without loneliness… come with me to that place. let us go together, friend.”
history meme(french edition) → 8 moments (1/8) The evacuations of the Louvre Museum
The two evacuations of the Louvre Museum, in 1914 and later in 1939, took place both times under perilous circumstances, and remained a great traumatism for its head and staff. While Paris was either under the bombings, or under the pressure of the Nazis, a group of people emptied the Louvre from its most precious treasures, risking their lives to protect what they believed in: art. The story goes that in 1914, when the first evacuation took place, the conservator himself pulled the Mona Lisa out of its frame – it had returned back only in the previous January after having been stolen for several years -, put it with extreme care in its wooden box, and slept over it in the train on the way to Toulouse. The first evacuation was extremely difficult and quite spectacular; no plan had ever been made for such circumstances, not even during the Commune in 1871. The second evacuation benefited however from a first protocol established in the 30s; the head of the National Museums endured valiantly the pressure displayed by the Nazis during most of WWII, and always refused to transfer back the works that were sheltered in the South. As of today, the Louvre Museum updates its evacuation protocol about every two years, with a list of about fifteen persons ready day and night to be called in case of emergency; bombing, fire, war, even nuclear attack are being anticipated to protect some of the most precious treasures in the world. Rumor has it that the Louvre’s current protocol is established to transfer its works in less than 5 hours.
Giveaway Contest: Thanks to the generosity of @harperperennial, we’re giving away all eight of the brand new, limited edition 2018-19 Harper Perennial Olive Editions! And this year, all of the Olives are CLASSICS! ❤ Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? 😀
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