Related Collection: It's the carnival season by Silvia Marchetti ROME, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- For the first time in a century, Rome celebrated Carnival in a one-week festivity featuring allegorical parades, masks and street shows. The celebrations ran from Thursday 19 to Tuesday 24. The closing day is known as "Fat Tuesday." "Finally the Roman Carnival has returned," medicine student Roberta Delonghi told Xinhua. "I love to dress up and this year it seems as if we are in Venice. The city is full of colors, beautiful masks and allegorical charts." On Tuesday she took part with her friends in one of the many events organized for the closing day of carnival, disguised as an ancient Roman princess. The atmosphere at Castel Sant'Angelo
abercrombie fitch parfüm, the former papal prisons hanging over the Tiber River which have been turned into a museum, on Tuesday evening was vibrant with laughter, colors and music. Children and adults ice-skated on a ring wearing masks and singing traditional songs in dialect. The pavements were covered with strings of colored paper, called "coriandoli." Francesco Rossi, a bartender who took a day-off work to participate in the Carnival festivities, told Xinhua that "it's great to live the old traditions of the city. Carnival is part of the Roman culture and the new mayor did a great job in reviving it." Gianni Alemanno, Rome's newly elected center-right mayor, told Italian news agency ANSA that he wants to "revive old traditions such as Carnival and rediscover the heart of ancient Rome." For Alemanno, restoring historical customs is a big cultural issue. "I want to rediscover our past festivities and mix them with a tinge of modernity," he added. Local authorities have been working months to launch the project Rome Carnival 2009 and it's been a success. The Italian hotel association and the national circuit of ancient villas contributed in organizing the Carnival events in Rome. For some teenagers Carnival is an excuse to get drunk. "My friends and I helped in building the allegorical charts with Batman and Robin and now it's our turn to have some fun drinking alcohol," 18-year-old Federico Saponaro told Xinhua. Rome's City Hall organized more than 30 events for the Carnival celebrations, scattered in all neighborhoods. Circuses with horses jumping in the flames
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g-star jeans raw, open-air theaters, folkloristic dances and allegorical chart parades filled the streets of the Italian capital for eight days. Tourists and citizens had fun dressing-up and walking through the historical center, savoring "frappe" and "castagnole," traditional Carnival cakes. Carnival is a festivity occurring immediately before Lent, usually during January and February. It typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus
converse billig, masque and public street party. People often dress up or masquerade during the celebrations, which mark an overturning of daily life and a moment of fun. It's a festival traditionally held all around the world but particularly in Roman Catholic countries. Italy has a long Carnival tradition. World-wide famous is Venice's Carnival, with beautiful Renaissance masks and decorated gondolas moving through the canals. The carnival in Venice is one of the most ancient in the world, first recorded in 1268. The subversive nature of the festival is reflected in the many laws created over the centuries in Italy attempting to restrict celebrations and often banning the wearing of masks. Nowadays Carnival it has lost its subversive nature and is a moment of pure citizen fun and party time. Rome
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asics laufschuhe, a form of improvised drama. Carnival was one of the most important city festivities. Romans looked forward to the celebrations because it was the only moment during the year when everything out-law was allowed.Related articles：
