Christmas in Italy, feasts in family.

Today I will show you that forms they celebrate the Italian Christmas. As we had seen in previous articles, Belgium and Finland were countries that gave a lot of importance to this festivity, inclusive their preparations carried days and days, thing that enjoyed a lot. Italy is a different country in that sense. Many affirm that the Italian streets are not decorated everywhere as well as the houses, since is an extremely religious respected festival and family, in the style of those festivities that live themselves intimately with the most beloved beings.



It is custom that in Rome, for example, that hundreds of Sunday previous children to the Festivals carry its statuette of the boy Jesus, the one that then will be placed in the manger of the plaza of San Pedro so that the Pope the bendiga during the prayer of the Angelus.


The “Wakefulness I gave Natale”(wakefulness of the birth) refers to December 24, accompanied by the traditional “one Cenone” (great supper). It is here when the family gathers to celebrate Christmas of a tranquil form and he suggests. December 25, exactly Christmas, also he is celebrated with foods, visits to the relatives and meetings among friends, also exchange gifts.


A particularity of the Italians is the feast of it called: New year’s Eve (Notte I gave Capodanno); here is used to celebrating out of the houses, in night clubs, record stores but before leaving also itself to have supper in family, ¡to forget not!. A tradition is to eat lentils in the supper as symbol and belief that if thus is will not lack the money in all the year that will begin in a few days.

2197037716_2f3df21d06_m is accustomed besides gave the red color lingerie women to assure also the good luck; in Rome and Napoles, upon arriving the midnight, the old deals are thrown for begin the new year on a good foot. January 6 is a special day in Italy. The day of the Befana is celebrated, the small witch that brings candies to the children that carry well and coal to the children that carry themselves badly. The typical candies of this epoch are the “panettone” and the “pandoro”, exquisite by demàs.