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?

06-02-2015, 12:02 PM	#3
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,374 Thanks: 7,447 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