Italy is an amazing country, famous for its numerous historical and cultural attractions of world significance, as well as the passionate temperament of its inhabitants. Therefore, if you want to meet all your favorite winter holidays really bright and unusual, take a look at the New Year's tours to Italy.
Preparation for the New Year holidays begins in advance and creates on the streets of the cities an absolutely magical, incomparable atmosphere of the holiday, which sometimes is not enough for the worries of everyday life. The owners of shops and shops compete among themselves in the decoration of storefronts, numerous Christmas fairs that begin in November, beckon with their brilliance and variety, and among them scurry townspeople and tourists in high spirits and lists at the ready - in search of gifts for friends and relatives.
Preparing for the New Year in Italy, care should be taken not only about purchasing vouchers, accommodation and other important but boring nuances. These nuances can be shifted to the shoulders of tour operators who will organize your trip to Italy, offering a variety of different tours for the New Year, cost from 300 euros for 7 days for 1 person. You will only have to choose a city and decide on the purpose of recreation. So, you can devote the New Year holidays in Italy to shopping , because at this time of year the shops begin the most large-scale sales, excursions to landmarks of the country or traditional winter recreation - skiing.
New Year in Italy: traditions
Christmas and New Year holidays are loved and long-awaited in Italy. The most important winter holiday, as in most European countries, is, of course, the Catholic Christmas , which is celebrated on December 24-25. It is customary to spend an evening on the eve of Christmas with the family at a richly decorated holiday table.
The mentality of our compatriots is close to the Italian tradition of drinking alcohol on New Year's Eve. Merry companies, walking along the streets of Italian cities, drink champagne and beer straight from the throat, and the devastated bottles strike directly on the foot of monuments on the street. And this is not barbarity and not a sign of a lack of culture, and another tradition - on New Year's Eve in this country it is customary to get rid of trash, throwing it out of windows, and also to beat all the beating - plates, glasses, bottles and so on. And it is believed that the more rubbish thrown out or broken a person on a festive night, the happier he will be in the new year.
Frightening for the unprepared guests may seem the tradition of shooting on New Year's Eve. And on the streets you can hear not the usual volleys of fireworks and explosions of firecrackers, but the real shots from firearms. It is believed that a double shot drives out evil spirits and lures luck.
Separately, we should mention culinary traditions. On a festive night Italian restaurants will offer visitors traditional New Year dishes - stuffed pork leg - zampone or pork sausage - kotekino with a garnish of lentils. Pork is considered a symbol of abundance, and lentils, because of the distant resemblance to coins, personifies wealth. Grapes and dried fruits should also be obligatory attributes of the festive table. It is believed that the one who is grapes on New Year's Eve, will be rich all year round. This is completely justified, because if there are grapes on the table in December, then the autumn harvest was good.
Italy for the New Year: weather
Predicting the weather - for obvious reasons ungrateful things. Mostly, it depends on the region of the country where you are going. In the south it will be warmer, in the capital and in Milan, colder, in the alpine villages, there will most likely be frosts.
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