CARNIVALS OF LAZIO, IN CIVITA CASTELLANA

Do not miss one of the oldest and most beautiful carnivals of Lazio, in Civita Castellana, Viterbo province.
Three indimendicabili afternoons are waiting to have fun with music, dancing and a parade of floats. 14.30 dance, Sunday 8:15, and Tuesday, February 17 until late evening, in fact after the awards ceremony of the wagons and masked groups will take place the burning of Puccio, the puppet of cards that attends in Piazza Matteotti entry of Carnival and which defines the closure.
Mardi Gras is happening thousands of masks, bands preceded by beautiful majorettes, folklore groups. No shortage of masks in freedom, who improvise raids, are caught in the parade, playfully provoke the audience, involve them in dancing.
The parade will start from Liberation Square, the new city, will travel via Mazzini, via della Repubblica, the Ponte Clementino, to arrive in the downtown streets.
The feast of the carnival is linked to food and wine tradition, every family through recipes secular proposes: damselfish of sweet dough fried and seasoned with honey, "scroccafusi"; strips of sweet dough fried in hot oil, the "frappe"; the "ravioli" filled with ricotta topped with rum; and finally the "Frittelloni", thin diaphragms of batter into the pan and quickly passed incaciati in abundance with pecorino cheese.

CARNIVALS OF LAZIO, IN CIVITA CASTELLANA

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