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Italian Christmas traditions
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Italian Christmas Holiday

• Dear Maria
• Its Crhistmas time. I hope that Christmas
  holidays are very nice. For Christmas in Italy we
  make many decorationsChristmas tree and lights.
  My brother and I decorate the Christmas tree in
  our garden with little colorate balls and many
  lights. Outside the door my mum and I hang up a
  garland. My family is catholic then we make the
  crib and at midnight we go to church for the
  mass. Now Ill tell you about some Christmas
  cakes Panettone Pandoro Struffoli. My
  favourite cake is Struffoli that I prepare with
  my mum and my grandmother. This cake comes from
  Naples. At Christmas lunch we eat lasagna, meat
  with potatoes etc. After lunch we play cards and
  tombola. I love Christmas holiday. I hope youll
  tell me about your Christmas holidays.
• Love Alessia 2c

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Italian Christmas Holiday

• Dear Carmen,
  Im writing you, because I want to
  tell you about the traditions of Italy, during
  Christmas celebrations. Here, we decorate the
  Christmas tree and set the crib, where the baby
  Jesus remains under a veil, until 24 th of
  December at 12 P.M.
• At that same time Santa Claus brings presents
  for the little children.
  
• On Christmas Eve we dont eat meat, but cheese
  or fish.
• At midnight we go to the Holy Mass. From
  Christmas to Epiphany, we eat the typical
  Christmas cakes panettone, pandoro, panpepato
  and torrone.
  These are the most beautiful and
  longest holidays during the school year.
  At New Years Eve party we eat pork with
  lentils.
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Italian Christmas Holiday

• We dance, we play tombola, we have a very good
  time with our friends and if it is possible, with
  our family too.
  During these holidays in
  Navona square in Rome there is a very old
  tradition about Epiphany, Befana an old but
  good woman who brings toys to children.
  
• All the square is full of stalls with every kind
  of sweets, toys, and presents.
• Its very nice walking through these coloured
  stalls full of light!!

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ITALIAN CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS

• Dear Lisa,
  Christmas day in Italy is on the 25th
  December, and it is a very important day. Each
  family makes a very big and long dinner, we
  usually eat lamb and for dessert PANETTONE and
  PANDORO . The symbol of Christmas is Santa
  Claus. He lives in the North Pole, enters
  houses trough the chimney and he puts presents
  under the Christmas tree. Exchanging presents is
  important, too. My Christmas day is special
  because I have a large magic family, with many
  children. In Anguillara, my nice town, there is
  an old tradition making a crib inside the water
  of the lake. There is also some charming music
  played by the Anguillara band, a big procession
  trough the town and sometimes the living crib.
  Anguillara people play the role of the Nativity
  characters.
• Love from Elisa II C

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Italian Christmas Holiday

• Dear Emma,
  I want to tell you something about
  Anguillaras Christmas traditions. We usually
  make Christmas tree and crib on 8th of December.
  But we put Jesus in the crib on 24th of December
  at midnight when father Christmas arrives for the
  children. Father Christmas arrives with presents.
  Before opening the presents, my family and I go
  to church. For Dinner we dont eat meat, only
  fish!!! In my family after dinner, every child
  plays a poem, learnt at school. After midnight my
  family and I play cards, Giorno di Paga,
  Visual Game and Bingo and we go to bed at six
  in the morning!! Its very fun!! These are our
  traditions
• I hope youll like them.
• Love from,
  Lisa II c
  
  

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ITALIAN CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

• Dear Flora ,
  
• last year I spent a good Christmas and I would
  tell you some of our traditions one is the
  decoration of the Christmas tree. All the
  Christmas presents are placed under the Christmas
  tree and they are unwrapped on December 25th, in
  the morning. Close to the Christmas tree there is
  the crib the cradle of the holy Infant is empty
  until December 24th in the evening. We usually
  spend the Christmas with our relatives and we eat
  sweets and special cakes as Panettoneand
  Pandoro. We usually spend the Christmas day
  playing cards and tombola, as well. Children wait
  for Santa Claus and adults know that Christmas
  day is an occasion to stay together and live in
  harmony. These are the Italian traditions about
  Chrismas.
• Yours Maria Chiara IIC

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EASTER IN ITALY

• Dear friends,
• how are you? Im fine! Unfortunately, I cant
  come there next month.
• Nine days ago it was Easter and I want to
  describe our Easter holidays.
• On Easter day my mother and I met our relatives.
  We went to my grandparents at one oclock. In
  fact we usually meet for lunch.
• First of all, there were the hors-d oeuvre, with
  eggs, salami, savoury cakesand stop! Because
  then there were pasta and meat with some
  vegetables and potatoes.
• After lunch, the adults drank the coffee and the
  children played together.
• But the children want the chocolate eggs! So, the
  relatives gave them the eggs and all people
  chatted about this and that
• At about five or six p.m. some people left and my
  mother and I went home
• This was the Easter day. But the holidays are not
  finished!
• On the day after Easter, we celebrated Pasquetta.
  I dont know the reasons for this festivity!
• But on this day we didnt meet our relatives
  because we met our friends! I went to my friends
  house and my mother went to her friends house!!!
• Today I ve Easter chocolate again!
• And what about your Easter? My English teacher
  told me you havent Easter like us!
• Write me soon
  
• 
  Love, yours Giuly

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EASTER IN ITALY

• Hi girls!
• How are you? Im Alice, and Im writing this
  letter to you to tell you about our Italian
  Easter holidays. They usually last about a week,
  which includes Easter day and also Easter Monday.
  At Easter, Italians usually have lunch with their
  relatives, (parents, grandparents, uncles,
  aunts,cousins, etc..), and in the evening they
  stay at home, or they go out to the cinema, or
  for a walk.
• The lunch is very big we usually eat pasta or
  lasagna as a starter, and meat like lamb or veal
  as a main course.
• There are also salad, salami and typical Italian
  cake Easter pizza. Its a sweet cake which can
  be traditional, with sultanas or savoury (for
  examples with cheese), etc this cake is usually
  eaten with salami its very good.
• I dont know if you eat Easter eggs , but
  theyre very tasty and we eat them a lot!
  Personally, I love them! This is our typical
  lunch on Easter day so, at dinner we usually get
  only a bit or the remains of the lunch.
• I spent Easter day with my family, and I had a
  big lunch also with my grandparents and my uncle
  Massimo. We ate lasagna, meat and, of course,
  Easter cake. In the evening some friends of mine
  came to our house to celebrate also my mothers
  birthday. We stayed together all the day and we
  enjoyed a lot!
• For dinner, we ate just a little bit and I went
  to bed.
• Italian also celebrate Easter Monday called
  Pasquetta. On this day, we usually have a
  pic-nic, or stay with our friends.
• I spent Pasquetta with my friends, and I enjoyed
  it very much!I got up late at about ten a.m, and
  I went to one of my friends. I had lunch there,
  and then I spent all the day with some of my
  friends.
• Then I returned home at about ten p.m.
• Another Italian tradition is the mass the night
  between Easter Saturday and Sunday. It lasts
  about two hours, from ten in the evening.
• The day before, on Good Friday, the Ceremony of
  the Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection of
  Christ is celebrated in Bracciano. It is very
  impressing because the population wears ancient
  Roman clothes.
• These were my Easter holidays. But they havent
  finished we also celebrate the 25th April, the
  day of the Liberation of Italy during World War
  Two. Theyre very relating!
• Now the school has restarted, and we have to go
  to school.
• But Ive a question do you celebrate Easter and
  Easter Monday(Pasquetta)?
• A lot of kisses to all of you!
• 
  Aly