Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Christmas in Italy




The Christmas holidays are approaching and this type of celebration are always very linked to the culture of the country, in fact, every country celebrates it differently. Italy has a great tradition of Christmas and I would like to inform you of what are our customs in this period.

In general in Italy Christmas has points in common with other states as the Christmas tree and exchange gifts but it also has many particularities.




The first thing that comes to my mind when I think to Christmas in Italy is the food. In particular, we have three foods of all Italy typical of this period: the panettone, the pandoro and the torrone.

Il panettone e il pandoro



Panettone was originally from Milan and is obtained from a leavened dough made of water, flour, butter, egg yolk, to which are added candied fruits, candied orange and cedar in equal parts, and raisins. Pandoro has Veronese origins and its dough is soft and golden in color, due to the presence of eggs, and smells of vanilla. The shape is a trunk, with star-shaped pads and there are Pandoro variant with cream or chocolate.




Il torrone

Risultati immagini per torrone cioccolato

Torrone consists of egg white, honey and sugar, stuffed with almonds, walnuts, peanuts or toasted hazelnuts. It has two variants: the hard and soft nougat, while more recently there is the chocolate torrone.




Gli zampognari
















A typical tradition of the southern country is that of zampognari or men dressed as shepherds and equipped with bagpipes, which descend from the mountains, playing Christmas music.




Il presepe 


Finally one of the Christmas elements that is more attributable to Italy is the crib. Almost all families in Italy, when the winter holidays approach, have a crib at home. Also in many villages Christmas market and cribs are set up on the street like in Bolzano, Arco and Trento.



However, in Italy Christmas it is important because you are with the family and is a period of sharing, solidarity and kindness.


Have a good winter holidays!







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