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Christmas in Italy lasts for 3 days, from 24 to 26 December. On December 26, the Feast of St. Stephen, is a public holiday in Italy.
The nursery is originally from Italy. As reproduction of the barn, was published in Italy in churches in the fifteenth century. The family nurseries have developed in seventeenth-and eighteenth, especially with the Neapolitan creches very crude. According to tradition, families Italian install the nine days before the birth of Christ. The Christmas tree is made on 08 December by tradition (a holiday in Italy)
Christmas traditions vary from one region to another. In northern Italy, it’s Santa Claus, “Babo Natale,” or the Little Jesus, “Bambino Gesu ‘who bring gifts on December 25.
In Rome and southern Italy, “Befana”, which provides toys during the night of the Epiphany. La Befana is a witch elderly, but very nice.
Elsewhere, St. Lucia, Dec. 13. According to legend, St Lucia brought food to Christians hiding his friends in the catacombs.
No Christmas in Italy, without the traditional “Panettone”. This cake would have emerged around 1490 in Milan, but soon it passed across Italy. The Italians also enjoyed the Pandoro whose popularity closely follows the Panettone, it is of more recent origin. The cake is the typical panettone or pandoro, and not the log.
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