Italian Easter

Easter in Italy staged more than 3,000 performances living. From north to south is a happening of processions, religious rites, festivals, shows, sacred, folk traditions and cuisine of first level.
Alghero, Barile, Florence, Sicily, Sulmona, Valmontone, Rome, Naples ... every big city or small town meets every ritual that marks the tradition.
Throughout Holy Week entire cities take to the streets to commemorate the Passion and Resurrection Christ.
During the night of Good Friday, the streets lit by lanterns, are crossed by processions.
On Easter everything is transformed into joy, in a flight of doves, to give thanks to the risen Christ.
The celebration of Easter is linked to the resurgence of nature. His lejanosorígenes are linked to nature thanks to reborn and again offers the delights of the earth.
Today, as then, we find the pins on the table transformed into bread, vegetables, eggs, lamb, essential and characteristic food of this festival in Italy.
The egg is an inevitable element. Easter is the "Easter Egg '" because this food is the symbol of life that is renewed, an omen of fertility.
In the egg and bread crackers are inspired cakes like cake and green Pascualina ancient Genoese dish. Easter cake of cheese is from Umbria, the "crescia di Pasqua" Marchegiana and mozzarella cheese pizza stuffed with egg, pecorino (goat cheese) fresh, flour and olive oil.
La Colomba Easter or Easter dove is a typical Easter candy and the Panettone and Pandoro are associated gartronómicas Christmas traditions.
The legend wants to go back in time the origin of this cake for Easter Lombard and the Lombard king Alboin that during the siege of Pavia was offered as a sign of peace, a sweet bread shaped pigeon (Colomba), or related participation of a legend of Queen and the holy Lombard Teodolinda San Colombano Irish abbot; origins of this culmination, now essential, Easter tables are much more recent
It was Dino Villani, director of advertising firm based in Milan Motta, famous for its Christmas pantteones pandulces or, in the 30s of 1900, to enjoy the same dishes, created this sweet similar to panettone, but aimed at the holidays Easter.
Since then Easter Dove (Colomba pasquale) flew to the table of all Italians, to the delight of large and small.
The Angel Monday or Easter Monday Pasquetta Pascueta popularly called, is the day after Easter.
Its name comes from that on this day we remember the meeting, at the tomb, the angel to Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Joses, and Salome.
Easter Monday is a public holiday civilly, introduced after the war, and was created to extend Easter.
On Monday the Angel, in Italy, usually passes along to family or friends with a traditional picnic excursion or outdoor.