Christmas in Terranera, Abruzzo, is in August, not in December. The hamlet of Rocca di Mezzo, in the province of L’Aquila, celebrated in advance. We are at 1,270 meters and this summer the climate has been similar to winter. There Pro loco organized an “out of season Christmas dinner” in which about 200 people sit at the table. In the square there was an illuminated fir with lots of decorations.
It is not the first time that a strange party is organized in the country in this period, but this year the images have gone around the web also because the temperatures of this summer, above 1200 meters, has been very similar to that of winter. With about 120 days in advance, Christmas was therefore celebrated.
In the Sirente-Velino Regional Natural Park Last Thursday Christmas arrived with all that this entails in terms of decorations, lights and hours spent in the kitchen. Reports theHandle That, between mulled wine, bombardino in a summer version and panettone, sat at the table in the table in the two hundred in the square of the town, quadrupling the resident population.
“A way to greet summer with lightness,” he told Ansa Giuseppe D’amuria teacher on vacation with the family, “and who knows what they will invent next year”. In fact, every year the festival has a theme common from the Disney world to pop culture of the early 2000s.
Andrea Giuliani He is the president of the Pro Loco of Terranera. This told RTL 102.5 that had been preparing the event for two years: «The cold has not been the cause of the party, but a detail accompanying an event that we organize to keep the community united. What’s more beautiful and engaging than Christmas? For this reason we brought the Christmas atmosphere to the square in the middle of August. The whole menu of the evening was inspired by the theme: fish as for the eve, cotechino and lentils per second, summer lemon and fishing panettone. Many have written to us to come and visit the tree and, even if we change theme every year, many are asking us to keep the Christmas party ».
Source: Vanity Fair
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