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The Italian Sunday

July 10, 2018

Sunday walk

The major meal of the Sunday get-together is always lunch (pranzo). Italians get up, some of them go to mass (messa) and then they meet for lunch. After that, they enjoy the passeggiata (walk) in the piazza, which can be seen as a great parade where people meet other people either by appointment or by chance, and show off their holiday clothes while digesting the rich meal they’ve eaten a few hours before. By dinner time they are back home, ready to check soccer (calcio) results.

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Buon Anno Nuovo!

January 2, 2018

Photo by Francesca Tosolini

Auguro a tutti un Felice Anno Nuovo, spero che il 2018 sia davvero un anno dolcissimo per ciascuno di voi.

I wish you all a Happy New Year, I hope that 2018 is really going to be a very sweet year for each one of you.

The “bridge”

November 7, 2017

Photo by Francesca Tosolini

In Italy, if a holiday occurs on a Tuesday (martedì) or a Thursday (giovedì), Italians practice the so-called ponte (bridge), which means that they carry the holiday over to the previous Monday or following Friday respectively. However, if a national holiday falls on either a Saturday or a Sunday, they don’t make up for it on the following Monday, as they do in the States; Italians just lose that day.

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