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Pane toscano – the Italian “silly bread”
Today the Tuscan bread maintains the same shapes as it once did with the sun-bronzed crust, the compact, crumbly, porous inside, and characterized by the absence of salt.
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Tarantella – The night of the tarantula dance
In the Italian province of Taranto, Apulia, the bite of a locally common type of wolf spider, named “tarantula” after the region, was popularly believed to be highly venomous and to lead to a hysterical condition known as tarantism. This became known as the Tarantella.
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New Year’s Eve or Feast of Saint Sylvester
F E L I C E A N N O N U O V O
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Capodanno – New Year’s Eve Italian Style
Capo d’anno – Beginning of the year in Italy
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Saint Lucia Celebration
St. Lucia is the patron saint of the city of Syracuse. The feast is a Catholic celebrated holiday with roots that can be traced back to Sicily.