New Year

The tree is decorated on December 8, and removed immediately after January 6During the Fascist era, there were attempts to set New Year’s Eve celebrations on another date, such as October 28. Thus, the date of Mussolini’s march to Rome would begin the new year.

According to modern tradition, the New Year is celebrated on the night of December 31 to January 1. Radio, television and newspapers sum up the year and offer a horoscope for the coming year. On the night of the celebration usually arrange a fireworks.

The old tradition of throwing unnecessary things out the window is almost no longer used, but wearing red underwear on this evening is a sacred tradition, brings good luck!

The traditional New Year’s dish is a pork leg with lentils (zampone e lenticchie) or lentils with pork sausage for boiling, the so-called kotekino (lenticchie e cotechino). It is believed that eating lentils on New Year’s Eve is to riches.

January 1 is a day off, and if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the next working day will be a day off.