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U fistinu of Santa Rosalia

Who is Santa Rosalia. Santa Rosalia is the patron saint of Palermo. Venerated for over three centuries, is the one who freed my city by the plague in 1625.

At the time of his miraculous intervention they knew little of its history. Over time, many devotees have been fascinated by the purity and sanctity of his life style so that every year thousands of pilgrims come from all parts of Sicily on Mount Pellegrino to pray and ask for thanks to Santuzza.

Rosalia Scalia lived between 1130 and 1170. Founded by the noble family of nell'agrigentino Sinibaldi, spent his youth in the court of Palermo Queen Margherita, wife of King William I said "Malo" .

betrothed to a young local squire, it is said that shortly before the wedding, he had vision in front of the mirror Jesus Crucified, who asked to retire to a life of contemplation and spiritual.

Rosalie answered the call immediately and lived in solitude and prayer in various places including Sicily and woods, and Santo Stefano di Quisquina Bivona, emulating the practice in use at the time ascetics.

His pilgrimage ended in Palermo on Mount Pellegrino, where, according to tradition, she wanted to be buried alive.

In the place where his remains were found today is a sumptuous sanctuary carved into the rock.

worship. The people of Palermo is very devoted to the saint who did not abandon the city in time of greatest need. fever, in fact, in 1624 was ravaging the capital of Sicily.

The story handed down verbally told that one day a ship arrived from Tunis to Palermo and take with him on board the plague.

The scourge quickly spread throughout the city, claiming numerous victims. Among the victims, however, spread tales of miracle cures for works of a saint still unknown.

Two major incidents and documented.

The first is the testimony of a woman, such a Girolama The Bad who, on his deathbed, he saw Santa Rosalia. At his suggestion, the poor woman, exhausted by the "Black Death", he climbed Mount Pellegrino, where he was healed.

The second is the tale of saponaro Vincenzo Bonelli who had lost his wife to the plague. Decided to commit suicide, he went up on Mount Pellegrino, where he appeared Rosalia. The saint pointed to the place where his remains were buried and asked him to bring to the streets because they would have done great miracles.

The poor man then went to the bishop that Doria, fascinated by the story, started investigations and discovered that the bones found belonged to a young woman in Santa Rosalia.

The bishop ordered that you did a procession. The passage of the bones, the whole town was cured from the disease fatal.

The Party ... "U fistinu. From the first procession of June 9, 1625 to date, Palermo remained faithful to the saint. For this reason, every year, in summer, we organize the "party", a series of touring shows in honor of the miraculous saint.

The Party (for us in Palermo "fistinu U") begins July 10 and ends July 15. In those days the city is in a fervor. All look forward to staging the story of the miracle. And together we live a great moment of collective identity.

The people of Palermo, united by tradition, paraded in a procession behind the "Triumphal Chariot" the holy place every year from major local and foreign artists who put their talents to the city.

The iconography of the chariot is repeated over time: a vessel, that carrying the plague, a mountain, Monte Pellegrino, and on the mountain, overlooking Santa Rosalia, which saves the city.

wagon through the streets of the old town and its past, people leaning out balconies shouting the name of the holy and throwing rose petals. From Cassaro the Navy throughout Palermo is close to the saint with whom he still wants dialogue. To the four quarters, the heart of the old city, the mayor salt on the bandwagon and shouting a phrase that has now passed into history: "Viva Palermo Santa Rosalia.

The procession ends at the Marina, where a fireworks show takes people with head toward the sky to contemplate the time of many colors.

On July 15, all culminating in a religious procession behind the bones of the saint who, as far back as June 9, 1625, through the city attracting the attention of all men of faith or not.

At midnight the bones are found in the cathedral and has already started thinking about how will be the next long-awaited feast.

I propose a series of links to see excerpts of the feasts of the past years. These are fragments of the play staged during the festivities. Over the years, many important actors, such as Remo Girone, wanted to participate in the shows. In the first scene you'll see some of the feast of 2004, according to a Sicilian dance very beautiful.

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John Was Born in a lift that give wine

In Bisceglie, near Bari in Italy, Giovanni was born in the lift of the local hospital.
13th April 2009, a woman and her husband run to their doctor because of a possible indigestion after Easter meals. The doctor announced her she was pregnant. But she didn’t know it. The birth was imminent, so they run to the near hospital. There, a lift breakdown forced her to give birth in the lift. The ASL Bat affirmed That There Was not Any breakdown at the lift. Perhaps we never know the truth. Luckily, little John Weighs 700 grams and 2 kilos and he has a very good health.

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Among the many fairs and celebrations in our area choose to talk about that closer to me: the grape festival.

is the most important festival in Marino, the first Sunday of October, combines the religious and the profane.
is celebrated, in fact, the Madonna del SS. Rosario, under whose protection was the naval expedition of the Holy Alliance against the Ottoman Empire was defeated at Lepanto October 7, 1571. One of the major architects of that victory was Marcantonio Colonna, lord of Marino.
In 1925 on the initiative of the poet Leone Ciprelli , the festival was founded with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a festival to sponsor the local wine.
The core of the festival is on Sunday. In the morning we start with High Mass in the Basilica of St. Barnabas and the end of the service, the procession to the center, until you return to the Basilica of departure for the prayer to Our Lady of Pompei. During the procession the statue of the Virgin is carried on the shoulders on a machine Baroque, together with the fraternities, parades with huge banners and signs. I do not know if you have this in the streets the center of Marina, all pebbles and salitone, in short, a great difficulty for those poor souls who carry the Holy.
In the afternoon the influx of people in the streets becomes scary for our habits, the last festival in the afternoon, an estimated 80 thousand visitors. It commemorates the victory of Lepanto with a historical procession in Renaissance costume inspired by hundreds of extras, horses and armor, floats reminiscent of the victory bestowed to Marcantonio Colonna.
The culmination of the festivities can be reached at sunset, when the Moors from the Baroque fountain gushes pure wine, water supply is suspended. The miracle lasted for about an hour and everyone can draw Wine and drink in peace in this and other fountains around the city.
At least in theory. Here, since the last edition for a small misunderstanding workers have made a mistake for which the wine flowed for a few minutes from the taps of the houses in the center and not from the fountain. There spernacchia well Times

The City will entertain the day with guests, comedians and singers. Of course resources are those that are recent and were the likes of Gigi D'Alessio, Flavia Vento, and Katia Ascanio (!) And Roberto Ciufoli.
But even if Bono was invited to the center of attention. The real stars that make magic the atmosphere are starlings and drunks on every corner.

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Fountains are no more saints than once

Bisceglie. First Sunday in August. Day Saints. Not one but three. We Bisceglie we are not satisfied. San Mauro, St. Sergius, St. Pantaleone . But perhaps I should say
Fair of the saints. Yes, because the saints are the pretext for the exhibition. I think there are always rituals revelers to accompany the anniversary of the saint of the day. But I think that perhaps we have lost the sense. But let us more ...

As some might say: "At the feast of the Holy well out excavations of Pompeii! "
a way as any to describe the "mess with people" on that day that is pouring through the streets. Most adults are fighting the Palazzuolo, the center of the city, and the stalls. The youngest Calace to invade via the long-awaited rides. Shouldered through the crowd, jostling for free. Tunz Tunz the background. Seeing is believing.

Bisceglie If you decide to come to honor the occasion do not be surprised if at some point during the evening will see the empty amusement park. And do not ask where they are going all ... at midnight is the battery, the fireworks. And it is the race to the front-row seat. I bring you to a place where no one has the phrase more frequent. The wall (the ancient city walls, good views of the harbor), the pier, the Navy League, the port are literally taken by storm by regulars and newcomers. At 00.00 the warning shot. A minute later from the pier, next to the lighthouse, starting the fires . Applause.

After the momentary interruption is resumed. Roundabouts, stalls, fair. Saints And you say? What center? Like what center?!? If there were there would not be fair. A habit now.
is a bit 'sad though. Do not you think?
If we want to drink and let's stay together. Why wait for the Saints?
If we want to Luna Park, well, let's go. But the Saints c'azzeccano that?
If we want to walk in the center, because only the fairs?
who believes the Saints should rediscover the religious feeling of the festival.
Who does not believe it to rediscover the meaning edible and rather festive. Ve San Mauro
imagine them spinning on Tagada, San Sergio upside down on the Rangers and San Pantaleo to jump on the Kangaroo!?!
Fair Saints beat 3 to 0.

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Peppino Impastato. The story of a young Sicilian. Reports

"My eyes are lying on the seabed in the heart of the algae and corals. Sitting stood silent and tight pincer between heaven and earth, and staring into the abyss."


last post I promised that I would speak of Mafia. I would do this by adopting a particular point of view. Not that the historian, the sociologist or the critic, but to a guy who feels the weight of this form of organized crime and should respect and admire the courage of those men in his country have found the strength to rebel. Raise your voice.

Peppino Impastato is one of them. May 9 marks the thirty-first year of his death.

Life . Giuseppe Impastato was born in Cinisi (a town in the province of Palermo) January 5, 1948 by Felicia Bartolotta Impastato and Luigi. His family knew very well the dynamics of the mafia system. Peppino speaks well of his father, in his biography:

"My father, head of the small clan and a member of a larger clan, with ideological connotations typical of a late-rural and pre-industrial civilization, had concentrated all his efforts, since my birth, in an attempt to impose on me its choices and its code behavior. It 'only been able to cut each channel of affective communication and compromise permanently any possibility of linear expansion of my subjectivity. "

This description is sufficient to understand what Pepper had suffered in his life. Him, choosing to rebel against the mafia, led a struggle against his own family.
guess what has not been easy for him to go against his father.
Affection denied that his father was looking for him in politics. The same Peppino said they came to politics on purely emotional. It was the key to respond to a family situation became untenable. The poem

I chose to open this post reveals his loneliness. Peppino has written many others. Emerge from all anxiety and inner turmoil, the need for affection and the desire to surrender. Leave everything. In fact, he never abandoned the dream of fighting for his land, Sicily, and for his city, Cinisi, which housed one of the most ruthless Mafia bosses: Tano Badalamenti.

In his moments of loneliness and despair (Peppino was also whole days without speaking to anyone about to close his silence) alternates a rich life experiences and formative moments that coinvlogevano and praised all those that revolved around this charming personality.
For example, in 1975, the club organizes Peppino "Music and Culture", an association that promotes cultural activities and that becomes the primary point of reference for the youth of Cinisi. In those years
Cinisi, Peppino opened Radio Aut, self-financed broadcaster that offers programs and counter-satire against "landlords" and members of the local mafia.
In 1978 Peppino is a candidate in municipal elections in Cinisi with a list that has the symbol Proletarian Democracy.

Shortly before the election, on a dark night "of the Italian State, the night in via Caetani and Aldo Moro, Peppino was brutally killed: his body is torn apart by a charge of TNT placed on the railway line that connects Palermo Trapani.
No name has saved, even that of his father.

investigations. The police and the judiciary had ruled that Peppino had committed suicide. His friends knew that Sicily was not. Peppino would never come to that. Subsequently, the court in Palermo
filed the case, stressing the array of mafia crime sostendendo but the inability to find the real culprits. Over the years, However, the Centre Impastato's family and forcefully shouted Justice, claiming that it shed light on the matter.
It was a long and complicated process, detecting several times by representatives of the institutions.
Gaetano Badalamenti, Vito Palazzolo, and the murder of his deputy, will be arrested and convicted only in the early 2000s.

Peppino's legacy. Many continue to believe that Sicily is just the Mafia. Some speak of Sicily as a nation of losers, as a people who do not want to change.
Peppino's example, Falcone and Borsellino, and all those who have decided not to leave Sicily and fight for it, walking legs of thousands of young people who still believe and hope. Boys did not give up and take to the streets every year, faithfully, to remember the names of those who are an example of justice, inner strength and courage, not only in Sicily but throughout Italy.
I would like to recall here the Association "Addio Pizzo" , which years ago by a spokesman for cultural reform against the Mafia. To compose it are boys and girls, men and women who identify with the phrase "An entire people who pay protection money is a people without dignity" : The purpose of the institution, in fact, is to combat all forms of racketeering and extortion.

The story of Peppino: movies, music. The story of the young Sicilian has affected many intellectuals, journalists, filmmakers. His courage could not and can not be concealed. A few years ago he released film "The Hundred Steps by Marco Tullio Giordana.
Here I propose one of the final sequences, where a friend of Peppino is unleashed in a heartfelt and speaks of his close friend.
On many occasions it comes to Peppino in Palermo and all those who paid with his life the courage of truth. In schools, the streets, the parade in a few days that crowd the streets of Palermo to remember the victims of the Mafia. To accompany the boys down the street there is also a lyrics Modena City Ramblers, a biography of the life in music by Giuseppe Impastato.

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After the winter season, although this comes only from the calendar views far from balmy temperatures of these days, it's time reports for skiers and mountain lovers. Alatri and throughout the province of Frosinone, can boast of two ski resorts situated in nearby towns, easily accessible then. Taking a close examination of these places, I should start from that which is closest, in terms of mileage, of course, from my country Alatri.
Campo Catino, the town of Guarcino, is located between the mountains and the mountains Ernici Cantari to 1800 meters above sea level. It enjoys a very strategic position: it could represent an important destination for skiing enthusiasts in the province of Rome, as it is only 90 km from the capital, both for the inhabitants of the province of Frosinone, having only 40 km to go to gens Two Women. The altitude that allows a good level of snow until spring also is accompanied by 5 lifts, a chairlift and five lifts. They traveled 12 km of trails of varying difficulty. The ski resort of Campo
Steffi is instead in the town of Filey. Also facilitated by a convenient geographical system, and fulfills fact, arrive with only 100 km from Rome, with 70 from 30 from Alatri and Avezzano. This station has 8 ski lifts and two chair lifts, one of three seats. The slopes are 16, located between 1600 and 2000 meters, suitable for all types of skiers. Recently the resort of Camp staff has also provided a track for snowboarding and one for lovers of cross country skiing.
After this brief description, it would be natural to ask why, these pleasant places to be included in a text just to examine a problem for my village. The answer is still a simplicity almost trivial. These structures do not work ... or at least work in fits and starts. Campo Catino despite the huge snowfall this winter has been able to make available to the sport, very few actually seen the continuing anomalies of the equipment, only two out of five plants. Once there was talk of broken chair .. once claimed a lack of funds to open .. and so on. Better not go to the lovers of Field Staff. Technical and structural problems have plagued the skiers throughout the season. It opened late and closed the first period runs.
These stations are located in the territory ciociaro therefore "underutilized" and despite the great potential of natural and unimaginable results are always scarce. Report therefore totally inadequate. And so the snow does not continue to be squandered by these great but small structures. Ad Maiora.

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"Once there was the whole campaign ...". How many have heard this phrase in the discourse of the 'older' and heard the story of open spaces as far as the eye before the geography of the place in question were turned upside down.
Comrade Mac recalls the ironic in our blog, but the risk in dealing with these issues is that it gives way to anger and indignation.

The fifties / sixty rose from a little 'but still in my part there is a plethora of scaffolding and buildings sprouting like mushrooms. No need even for one night rain, if there is a lot better the next day with the mist that reduces visibility.
The cement is forced one of the major problems affecting the area of \u200b\u200bthe Castelli Romani.
a mess even worse when you consider that these areas of high environmental value, subject to landscape.
The situation takes a serious tone more or less depending on the country, type of administration, the interests put into circulation, but can be taken as a common denominator in the area.
urbanized districts and processed in a few years found the official explanation in the vicinity of Rome, which has marked the Castles as a sort of dormitory and home, with rents low compared to the capital.
The real reasons may be sought elsewhere. It is the business of manufacturers 'outsiders' who profit disfiguring an area that is not theirs, just to make good profits. It is the strange logic of the planners who can not stand color green, and argue that fits in better with the gray sky and clouds.
It gradually extends the circle involving surveyors and architects, in a strange alchemy of cubic, calculations and deception obstacles (new Olympic sport?).
And that illegal building is a valuable ally in the political connivance.
Yes, because local interests and industries in the joints between bricks often converge. Then click the mutual support, procurement driven, advertising circles.
and national level is justified everything. What better legitimacy of the amnesty laws brilliant? We laugh to keep from crying
There are occasionally remedial action, but also when the standard requires is a way to survive. How Giolitti argued: "To apply the laws of the enemies, friends are interpreted."

To make matters worse the distortion of the landscape, they open new problems. Among the more recent than the water deficient or even useless if delivered at night mixed with metal and earth. The explanation says ACEA, which operates the water network, is the maturation of the consequences of all the works abusive or otherwise unauthorized raging in the castle ( the press here).

But to be honest not much to worry about the eco-monsters in itself (even when the limit of decency .. click here). The greatest danger is what he is doing more and more grip on the population: a sort of addictive substance and then indifference. Shortly
can the environmental movement who are fighting in the area when set up stands and gazebo are avoided and ignored initiatives. Indifference
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also born in Bisceglie A lift

problems of our cities are the theme of this new post.

Now, to write that yesterday, April 30, exploded a bomb , say a small bomb at the entrance of an embroidery seems excessive to me. Rewrite of

Cianciana Francis, shot by a gunman on a Saturday morning a few weeks ago in the center, it seems out of place. Especially ironic for this blog.
And yet, explore the already mentioned open dumps unimportant. So how to tell
of robbery, of workers who fall and local health surveys. Looking for something

more sympathetic light and to tell, I came across a story that would define at least curious.

On 13 April, a young woman gives birth to a child Trani. So far, so normal. Except that the woman did not know she was pregnant (I read that he had already given birth three times. And I also read that it was a young bride. Who knows!). I'm not a gynecologist, and then step further. Also because it gets better. The woman gave birth in the elevator . And it goes so well ... in the movies and in reality not! But there is something even more unusual. Searching on google news incident, I realized that Gazzettadelmezzogiorno.it writes April 15 that the lift had broken down and so was up and down and has finally opened only after the birth of the child. And in these terms the news is reported in many newspapers. Even a local politician involved in the matter an urgent Alderman Policies of Health mind that these events are not uncommon in hospitals of the ASL Bat. The final gem? A small detail in an official note, taking the testimony of doctor of obstetrics and rotating with the same woman, the Bat Asl said that there was no fault to the elevator and the woman, who came to hospital in obstructed labor, gave birth on the stretcher during transport. You choose a side. Meanwhile, John is well, weighs 2 pounds and 700 grams and is laughing about us and our problems. And laugh even more when they grow up imagines the scene of the birth of his mother.

But there is another nice thing to Bisceglie.

Bicycle lanes . La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno of 03 June 2008, almost a year ago, reports a letter from WWF to: Mr. Bisceglie Ill.mo Mayor Francis Spina, Ill.mo City Traffic Police Commander Maj Dr Bisceglie . Michele Dell'Olio, Ill.mo Councillor for the Municipal Police Rag. John Abascià . The letter sets out the complaints of many citizens, not only for the connection of the cycling track, present, for your continued slalom bikes that have to do to avoid cars parked on bike lanes. One might add that have been made with invisible ink ... because within a few weeks, the dark red used was confused with the black asphalt. But never mind, you can still see the yellow line. Satisfaction!

This is the bike path under my house. And so is almost every day. Try to pass you bike. And try it you find a policeman. Schhhh.

many other things I could tell. But for reasons of space and not to bore you more than I stop and look with you the post of my fellow bloggers. Until next .