Calendimaggio di Assisi 2010

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Uploaded by on May 18, 2010

The Calendimaggio is a Medieval festival which is celebrated on the first Thursday, Friday and Saturday of May every year in Assisi, Italy. The citizens are dressed in a colorful range of period costumes. The celebrations include competitions with love songs, games and events. The festival leads to the prestigious Palio which is contested by two groups for a valuable prize. They are the Magnifica Parte de Sotto and the Nobilissima Parte de Sopra, the two districts which form the city. This event mirrors the rivalry of the 1300s between the Fiumi and the Nepis families for supremacy which ranged over a period of enmity for two centuries. A jury of historians, directors and musicologists make up the board of judges and award the prize of the Calendimaggio festival to the district which displays and interprets the essence of the return of spring with the best love songs, costumes, races and games.

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  • Ho molto apprezzato, grazie.

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  • It's so nice! Great video, great music, thanks!!

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