Carnival is the happiest festival of the yearIt seems a party created especially for children, who have always loved dressing up anddressing

up in all ways possible!

Carnival is the period before Lent and is celebrated with masked balls, parades of floats,dances.It ends the day of Mardi Gras, which precedes Ash Wednesday, first day of Lent.

The celebrations during the Carnival season has an origin very far, probably in pagan religious festivals, which made use of masks to ward off evil spirits.

With Christianity these rites lost their magical and ritual were just forms of popular entertainment.During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, during the Carnival celebrations were also

introduced in the European courts and assumed most refined forms, related to theater, dance and music.

Today, Carnival is an opportunity for fun and is expressed through the disguise, maskedparades, festivals.

Pulcinella

NaplesPulcinella is

a foolish servant and talkative. Assumes contradictory personality: it can be dumbor smart, brave

or cowardly.Pulcinella is the

personification of idleness.

He is always hungry and thirsty, his favorite dish is macaroni with tomato

sauce. It has a livelygestures, typical of

the Neapolitan

Rugantino

RomeRugantino contaballe is boastful

 and often risks, and pay in person.

It 's willing to take up to remain unconscious in order to

have the last word. Represented thetype

of populating violent but generous, true ancestor of

the modern suburban bully always ready to mock the powers that be and those who defend the misery ends with the outlaw.

Its name derives from "Rugare" ie, grumble, grumble, l

ike a pot of simmering water.

harlequin 

BergamoBorn in Bergamo low, 

Harlequin shows little intellect and it is foolish and gullible.Harlequin we find

him still as the humble servant 

and the porter.It 'a

mask acrobatics, the complex gestures: his speech Bergamo is

much more complex than that

of Brighella, as enriched by expressions in

other dialects.

Pantalone

VenicePant is an old merchant, often

rich and esteemed by the nobility, while other times it

is an old merchant in ruins. It 's an old man very

special because despite his age is capable of doinghis "advances" that love never

end in a positive way.And 'a man of great vitality in

business, to the point of sacrificing the

happiness of children andfamily harmony while advantageous to

combine a wedding

Le Chiacchiere Le Frittelle di Carnevale

Gli Struffoli

Near Somma Vesuviana there is a country: Saviano. It is famous for Carnival.