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January
5th
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"La
Pasquarella"
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Every
year impromptu groups ("pasquarellari) announce Jesus’ birth with
songs and dances.
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January
17th
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St.
Anthony Celebrations
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All
the animals are blessed and the sheep breeders offer a lamb each.
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Last
week-end of February
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Exhibition
of black truffle and typical product of the Valnerina.
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March
20th
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Benedictine
Torchlight Procession
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Every
year, since 1968, on the occasion of the celebrations in honour
of St. Benedict patron saint of Europe, born in Norcia in the V
century, a torchlight procession is organized. The procession starts
every year from a different city in Europe and arrives in Norcia
in the evening of March 20th. This initiative wants to strengthen
peace and union among European peoples.
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March
21th
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Benedictine
Celebrations
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On
March, 21, to recall the imposing ceremonies of the past, an historic
pageant and the offer of a banner take place. A fascinating and
faithful historic reconstruction shows the old ceremonies that took
place when the representatives of the Castles around Norcia and
of the neigh boroughs of the town ("Guaite") came as pilgrims.
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Good
Friday (Easter)
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"Via
Crucis"
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It
is celebrated with an imposing procession starting from "Capo la
terra" and going by beside the boundary walls, where the tableaux
vivants representing the way of the Cross are.
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May
1st
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"Pianta
Maggio"
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Every
year, the return of the month of may is celebrated by putting up
in the main square of villages a high maypole ("maggio"): a good
omen for soil fertility.
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Second
Sunday of June
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"La
Fiorita"
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In June, the fields below the village of Castelluccio are speckled
with flowers of every species. Of course, this spectacle does not
take place in an exact date, but the village celebrates it in the
second Sunday of June.
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August
16th
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"Sienti
umpuò" fair
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In
old times during this same fair people used to look for a job for
the winter, preferably as pork butchers ("norcino") in big towns.
The negotiations would began with "Sienti umpuò" ("Listen…")
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December
9th
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"Li
Fauni"
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The
Christian tradition dates back this festival to 1291, in the night
when Our Lady Madonna’s home was transported by angels from Nazareth
to Loreto. Every year, on December 9th, at midnight, bells ring
and in every square of Norcia high stacks of broom are burn to warm
up people and to… show the angels the safest route.
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