Walking into the centre

Lots of lights and people streaming into the piazza.

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January 17th 2007
I mentioned in my last post that we might head to a local festival that involved burning a bonfire. And so we did. Last night we headed with Vincenzo and Sara in tow to Novoli for the feast of St Anthony. I’m not sure which St. Anthony it might be, but this one might have been canonized for pyrotechnics. The bonfire is reputed to be the tallest in Italy (20 mt / 60feet) and so we thought thi ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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