SPRING’S SNEAK PEEK
Dismantled the Christmas tree, put in the attic lights and decorations and, reluctantly, dusted the gym subscription, it is easy for the most, let melancholy take over the long winter months ahead. For this...
Dismantled the Christmas tree, put in the attic lights and decorations and, reluctantly, dusted the gym subscription, it is easy for the most, let melancholy take over the long winter months ahead. For this...
Florence ofers a lot of events and celebrations related to Easter, from Easter to Easter Monday in the city you can attend Easter religious rituals, markets and festivals. Surely on Easter Sunday, as every year,...
On Easter Sunday every year, Florence celebrates the religious holiday in a very special way. The Scoppio del Carro, or the “Explosion of the Cart”, dates back over 350 years. An elaborate wagon built...
A large door located on Via del Prato, caught between ancient palaces, hides the Easter Cart, the one that on Easter morning is slowly pull by four pairs of oxen until arriving in front...
Once upon a time an ancient tradition that began in 1097, when Pazzino de’ Pazzi, a Florentine from a prominent family, was by tradition the first man to scale the walls of Jerusalem. As...
La tradizione pasquale fiorentina vuole che il dolce prediletto sia a forma di lettere; si tratta dei quaresimali, biscottini sfiziosi con i quali i bambini si divertono a scrivere brevi parole, infatti la loro...
Da secoli quello che i fiorentini chiamano “brindellone”, per la sua mole, è al centro della celebrazione pasquale, un tempo utilizzato il sabato Santo e oggi, dopo una variazione della liturgia, utilizzato per i...