Traditions
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| Tradition | Remarks | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festivals and celebrations | Festa della Repubblica | Is celebrated on the second of June each year. The day commemorates the institutional referendum held by universal suffrage in 1946, in which the Italian people were called to the polls to decide on the form of government, following the Second World War and the fall of Fascism. | |
| Ferragosto | An Italian holiday celebrated on August 15. | ||
| Presepe | Is a representation of the birth of Jesus, derived from medieval traditions. | ||
| Dance and music | Tarantella | Groups a number of different folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo, usually in 6/8 time (sometimes 18/8 or 4/4), accompanied by tambourines. | |
| Culinary traditions | Panettone | Is a type of sweet bread loaf originally from Milan usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year. |
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Famous quotes containing the word traditions:
“Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes regretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.”
—Guillaume-Prosper, Baron De Barante (1782–1866)
“... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)