CELEBRATING THE BLISSFUL HOLIDAYS ITALY HOLD
Every year, we are looking forward to the holidays for us to celebrate it with our beloved family and friends. Celebrating holidays are part of a culture, lifestyle, history, and religious practices of a certain place. Every month has different holidays to remember and every holiday has a different approach to commemorate it.
Italy celebrates a number of holidays in a month. These blissful holidays Italy holds include those celebrated world-wide and those that are unique in their county.
The very first celebration among holidays Italy hold is Capodanno. It is celebrated by every country on the first day of the year, which is better known as the New Year’s Day. Just as other nations rejoice, Italy welcomes the year with extravagant fireworks display, boisterous sounds, laughter and greetings.
Still on the month of January, Italy celebrates Giornata Nazionale della Bandiera or Flag Day. It is principally celebrated in Reggio nell'Emilia on the seventh day of the month. Italy, as a country where Roman Catholic lies, celebrates a religious practice called Epifania or La Befana. It is a feast commemorating principally the revelation to the Gentiles of Jesus Christ as the Savior, as portrayed by the coming of the Three Wise Men.
Second month comes and Italy celebrates the feasts of patron saints. They are San Biagio, the patron saint of Doues, and San Rinaldo, the patron saint of Nocera Umbra. There is also the Festa degli Innamorati, which celebrates for San Valentino.
March is almost the same with February, where patron saints are remembered. These March holidays Italy holds are La Festa della Donna, San Ilario and San Taziano (patron saints of Gorizia), and San Proietto (patron saint of Randazzo).
Just as other countries making fool on the first day of April, Italy celebrates the same and calls it Pesce d'Aprile. What is much worth honoring for them is the Festa della Liberazione (Liberation Day), an annual national holiday commemorating the 1945 liberation ending World War II in Italy.
A holiday on the fifth month is Festa del Lavoro (May Day), annually celebrated on the first day of May.
When June comes, Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day) is given a day to look into. Bountiful feasts are rejoiced for San Giovanni Battista, patron saint of Firenze, and San Pietro and San Paolo, patron saints of Roma. The same rejoices are done on July feasts such as that of San Paterniano and Santa Rosalia. August feast includes San Alessio, the patron saint of Sant'Alessio in Aspromonte.
Meanwhile, September feasts include San Gennaro (patron saint of Napoli) and San Maurizio (patron saint of Calasetta). And on October, Italy celebrates the patron saint of Bologna, San Petronio.
November holidays Italy takes into account are Ognissanti (All Saints Day) and Il Giorno dei Morti (Day of the Dead). During these times, Italians bring flowers to the graves of their deceased relatives. And by the last month of the year, families are gathered together to celebrate and rejoice Natale. Christmas Day is one of the most joyous holidays Italy holds.
Most of the holidays Italy has got are reflections of their religious practices, as well as historical and cultural commemorations.