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In Italy, this period is almost as important as Christmas. After a forty days period of prayers and abstinence known as Lent, everybody is looking forward to the long weekend culminating in the Easter feast.
Religious traditions are very much alive. In Florence, the "Scoppio del Carro" (explosion of the cart) still happens on Easter Sunday. A massive adorned wagon makes its way slowly around the city, its course ending in front of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. After the mass, a rocket resembling a dove is hurled at the cart by the Archbishop, starting the fireworks hidden under the decorations. This three hundred year old custom has pagan roots, and was meant to secure a bountiful harvest.
It is still considered to be bringing luck to Florence. Well-known Good Friday processions take place for example in Chieti (Abruzzo), where the procession is thought to be the oldest one in the country, or in Enna (Sicily), with over two thousands people parading through the city in costumes.
As for the most impressive and sought after mass, it is of course the one celebrated by the Pope in Rome. Tens of thousands of people congregate in Saint Peter's Square every year.A huge explosion will be detonated Easter Sunday in front of the magnificent green– and white–marbled neogothic church in Florence's centro storico.
Instead of running in fear from a terrorist's bomb, though, thousands of spectators will cheer the noise and smoke, for they will be witnesses to the annual Scoppio del Carro—explosion of the cart.
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For starters, the Italian word for Easter is “Pasqua” (pronounced PAHSS|kwah), and it’s one of the biggest holidays on the Italian calendar. Easter in Italy may look somewhat similar to Easter celebrations you’re used to – you’ll see colorful displays of chocolate eggs in shop windows, for instance – but there isn’t an Italian-speaking Easter Bunny (I know, I was disappointed, too).
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At Vatican City there are a series of solemn events that culminate in Easter Sunday Mass. During the spring holy days that center around the vernal equinox there are also many other rites practiced throughout the country that have their roots in historic pagan rituals. In addition, the Monday following Easter is an official Italian holiday called la Pasquetta, so if traveling be prepared for another day of repose.
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