Events in Lazio Region

June 13th, 2007

April:
In Alatri, near the province of Frosinone City south of Lazio Region,there is a Sacred Re-enactment of the Passion Play.

After the second world war it has been always attempted to improve religious meant its with the enrichment of the historical reconstruction of the drama of the Golgota. All the inhabitants of Alatri are felt personally been involved a lot are felt ancient the devout tradition. Not there is need of a director, of coordinators, all figuring know what must make and making lever the memory of their infancy they create the scenes of a flavor touching consecrated water of beauty.

In Tarquina Historical place in Etruscan area, close to the sea, province of Viterbo Historical Parade and Jousting Tournament.

In the month of April you open them come celebrated the traditions of the Tarquinian middle ages. The Giostra of the Contrade cheers all the city and knights in custom are moderate themselves in ability contests. The spring door, but, all for the spots in tries of asparagi, cicoria and misticanza. Groups of gitanti gather in the spiazzi and, like a time the “butteri” (cowboy), cook in “callaro” (big pot) the traditional delicious acquacotta soup. In the houses the beautiful season with the cool “frittelle of borragine” (
The borragine (borago officinalis) is a purifying and rich plant of fitoestrogenum, precious natural substances for the health and the feminine beauty).

In Acquapendente a little place in Viterbo area, 10 Km. from Bolsena’s lake we have The Pugnaloni pageant, wonderful mosaics of petals of flowers and leaves, is the main folkloristic element of the festivity of the Madonna of the Flower that celebrates to Acquapendente the third Sunday of May.

The city was conquered from Federico the Barbarossa, enduring along period of tyranny an end when the people, with the aid of the papal armys, did not get rid from the giogo in 1166. It was one given memorable that still today, in the May month, comes recalled with the festivity of i Pugnaloni. The historical distances of the Farnese, become somewhat powerful in the second half of the “500, invested also Acquapendente because the ducato one of Castro, created from Paul III Farnese, were cause of the controversies with the Papal State a lot that, in 1641, Odoardo Farnese, in war with Urbano VIII, plundered the city. Eight years after, in spite of an agreement between Odoardo and the pontefice, Castro was destroyed from the armys of Innocenzo X and the episcopal center came transferred to Acquapendente, in the Church of Santo Sepolcro who divenne cathedral.

In Sant’Oreste north/east of Lazio Festival of the Madonna:

From 1814, every year in the last Sunday of May is repeated more than centennial festivity of the Madonna di Maggio, that it culminates with the traditional appointment of the Fiaccolata of Monte Soratte; in the previous days they come arranged hundred makes us of canes a zone of the mount long and to the evening, when the processione catches up Piazza Mola to Wind all the canes comes ignited at the same time offering one only and thrilling show; fires smoke and fireworks day of great festivity them is crowded in the sky of the Soratte having concluded one.

In Tarquina Historical place in Etruscan area, close to the sea, province of Viterbo Historical Parade and Jousting Tournament.

In the month of you open them come celebrated the traditions of the Tarquinian middle ages. The Giostra of the Contrade cheers all the city and knights in custom are moderate themselves in ability contests. The spring door, but, all for the spots in tries of asparagi, cicoria and misticanza. Groups of gitanti gather in the spiazzi and, like a time the butteri, prepare in “callaro” the traditional one acquacotta. In the houses the beautiful season with the saporite ones frittelle of borragine is celebrated.

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