Monday, May 11, 2009

Italian Lifestyle

Lifestyle of any country explains the living style of persons, art and culture, entertainment, social relation, language, food consumption, dressing etc. To know about lifestyle of Italy is always exciting because it give wonderful thought of Italy, “there is something for everyone”. Great history, ancient art and cultural, perfect climate and geographical location, beautiful scenery, romantic cities, festivals and carnivals celebration, delicious food and drinks and lovely people of Italy make some unique living styles.

Villa di lusso Affitto ToscanaItalian People:
Italians are warm, welcoming people who love to relax, celebrate and socialize with family and friends. Italians are great lover of eating and cooking some delicious traditional foods, they also have passion of talking. In Italy talking and conversation between people treat as art form. Celebration and relaxation usually take place around the table either at home or in a restaurant, where they can enjoy the traditions of the Italian cuisine. The extended family still plays an important role in Italian life cycle. Italians like to socialize outside the home and often meet in bars, restaurants and pizzerias, but gatherings at home are also very much a part of Italian life when Italians gather as a family to celebrate special occasions or just to come together to enjoy a meal on Sunday.

Art and Culture:
Due to great ancient art and culture, Italian are art lovers. They preserve thousands of ruins and statues to be found, from Pompeii, site of an old Roman town flattened by Vesuvius in 79 AD, to the Grizzi Palace in Florence. They have variety of towns and cities and even small villages to peruse at their leisure the vast array of art galleries, exhibitions, villas, castles, and churches. Life in Italy makes it very easy for people to meander around from numerous art galleries or open-air theaters, or wander around Rome or Venice or any of the other towns to get a feel of the history.

Food and Drink:
Food plays a major part in the lives of Italians and their culture. Italian have passion of cooking delicious, traditional, richest and most varied of food. They like to celebrate every festival with prepare occasional dishes. Due to large number of region there is vast varieties of food like pasta, pizza, cheese, meet and fish food. Italian also like to prepare some top label wines in world.

Appartamento Affitti brevi in ToscanaEntertainment:
Entertainment play big role in lifestyle of Italy. Italian calender is full packed of festivals, carnivals and events. Peoples have great entertainment while celebrating these festivals. Ancient theaters and music are main source of entertainment from past many years. In sport football in passion, with hundreds of football clubs with top soccer teams playing for their country. These are just some of the elements that make up Italian culture. Everything about Italy exudes quality and style - from their clothes to their music. It is no surprise, for example, that both the top opera singers and top fashion designers all come from Italy.

There are many other points which are left in Italian Lifestyle but they not play important role.One can say that Italian people live colorful, passionate, enjoying and lovely life. It would be difficult to find any other national culture to match Italy's rich diversity and depth of emotional vibrancy.

Posarelli Villas provide villas, apartments and castles for rental across Italy. We would also like to help our present and future clients who are going to visit Italy. Our main aim is to help them with A to Z information about their requirements during their holidays in Italy.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Italian Festivals

Italy is famous for its festival celebration. The citizens of Italy are very passionate about festivals in Italy. Italian calender is full packed of festivals, carnivals and events, some of which are linked with religious, changing season and harvest based. In cities, villages and towns festivals are celebrated with cavalcades, processions, ceremonial races and competitions, singing and dancing. Delicious traditional dishes of food are made and serve with wine. Tourists and visitors are always warmly welcomed to these events.

The following list presents some of the many festivals, carnivals and events held in Italy:

February

Vernio: Polenta Festival

April

Florence: Mediaeval "Explosion of the Cart"
Cerreto Guidi: Chianti wine fair

May

Querceta: Renaissance Parade and Horse Race
Pescia: Pinocchio's Birthday
Massa Marittima: Historic Pageant
Saturnia: Pecorino Cheese fair


June

Arezzo: Medieval Pageant and Jousting Tournament
Chiusi: Historical Horse Race and Pageant
Florence: Historical Soccer Game and Parade
Pisa: Battle of the Bridge, featuring water games on the Arno River
Squirico d'Orcia: Festa del Barbarossa
Buti: Olive fair
Regatta of the Great Maritime Republics (Every 4 years in June)

July

Lucca: Medieval Parade and Horse Race
Pistoia: Historic Parade and Jousting Tournament
Livorno: Historical Regatta
Siena: Palio Horse Race and Pageant (July to August)

August

Grosset: Cowboy Parade and Rodeo
Giglio Island: Historical Regatta
Massa Marittima: Historic Pageant
Montepulciano: Historical Pageant and Games
Porto S Stefano: Palio Marinaro dell'Argentario (15th August)

September

Carmignano: Historical Parade and Horse Race
Arezzo: Medieval Pageant and Jousting Tournament
Prato: Parade and Historical Ball Game
Bagno a Ripoli: Palio delle Contrade
Venice: Finest regatta in Venice and gondola races
Monte San Savino: Roasted Pork fair
Cerreto Guidi: Palio del Cerro (Saturday before first Sunday of September)

November

San Miniato: Festival of the White Truffle

December

Volterra: White Truffle of Val di Cecina fair

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