Festa della Repubblica - June 2

ithacaartist · 06-02-2015, 12:02 PM

On my only visit to Italy, in about 1991, I learned of another festival. I'm not sure if it's celebrated nationally, but in the coastal community of Santa Margarita, it's called the "Day of Thunder". The bar at the trattoria in which I had dinner had its walls covered in photos of men posing with scores of little cast iron mortars. It was explained that on this day every year, they'd load them and set them off all at once, breaking every window for km around! Sergio, do you know what this celebration is?

Sergio Natali · 06-02-2015, 01:09 PM

David

Honestly I've never heard of it but I went to look for it on the Net, and found that in Santa Margherita Ligure they have a local festival in March called "Festa della Primavera" (Spring Festival), which I suppose is the one you have been at.

Every town however small, have a festival especially in Summer and in early Autumn.

David perhaps it's time for you to come back for another stay in Italy: nice places, a lot of culture and gorgeous food, altogether there is an awful lot to see.

Sergio

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ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,377 Thanks: 7,452 Thanked 2,613 Times in 1,380 Posts	On my only visit to Italy, in about 1991, I learned of another festival. I'm not sure if it's celebrated nationally, but in the coastal community of Santa Margarita, it's called the "Day of Thunder". The bar at the trattoria in which I had dinner had its walls covered in photos of men posing with scores of little cast iron mortars. It was explained that on this day every year, they'd load them and set them off all at once, breaking every window for km around! Sergio, do you know what this celebration is? __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

06-02-2015, 01:09 PM	#2
Sergio Natali User Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Somewhere in Northern Italy Posts: 2,646 Thanks: 1,087 Thanked 1,783 Times in 1,007 Posts	David Honestly I've never heard of it but I went to look for it on the Net, and found that in Santa Margherita Ligure they have a local festival in March called "Festa della Primavera" (Spring Festival), which I suppose is the one you have been at. Every town however small, have a festival especially in Summer and in early Autumn. David perhaps it's time for you to come back for another stay in Italy: nice places, a lot of culture and gorgeous food, altogether there is an awful lot to see. Sergio Attached Thumbnails __________________ "Originality can't be restored and should be at the top of any collector's priority list.

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