Monday, June 2, 2014

Boomer Celebrates Italian Style!

Ciao Everybody! From the food to the people, to the music- Boomer is having an absolute blast in Italy! In case you haven't seen his latest posts, Boomer has been everywhere and is learning so much! However, this morning he woke up to something that was unfamiliar. Generally every morning at 7:00 in the morning, Boomer is greeted to a market outside of his window that sells anything from clothes to fruit and veggies. However, this morning Boomer found it strange that the market outside was not being set up! Sometimes, too, Boomer will even see kids being escorted to class by their mom or dad, who carry their backpacks or other personal items. Yet, there wasn't a sign of anyone anywhere!

"Hey! Where is everyone?!"

He found this to be very strange so he grabbed me to do some early morning exploring. Traveling a little further down the road, Boomer and I noticed that everywhere we looked shops were closed, along with all of our favorite food stops in Arezzo. Typically we have noticed that most places do not open until later in the day, unless they are coffee shops or places to grab breakfast. However, even some of our breakfast spots were sporting a closed sign on their door. Here he is outside of one of his favorite stops in Arezzo that was closed down for the day. Boomer and I decided to take to the internet as well as ask around as to why the streets were deserted and the shops were closed.

"Maybe they'll be open later!"

What do you know! Today is a national holiday! An important one in fact. Every year on June 2nd, Italy celebrates what is called the Festa della Repubblica (in English, this translates to Republic Day). Festa della Republicca symbolizes the day in 1946, which the Italian people were called to the polls to decide on the type of the government that would follow the Second World War and the fall of fasicm. After 85 years under a monarchy, the people of Italy were asked to vote between keeping a monarchy as their form of government or changing it to a republic. By a vote of 12,717,923, republic won and has been standing strong to this day! Click here for more information!

To celebrate the new republic, there was a new parade held on the Via dei Fori Imperiali, Rome's main road, in 1946. Since then more and more parades are held within Italy to commemorate the historical day!

 "Let's go to Rome to see this!"


To put this into an American perspective, Festa della Republicca is to Italians as the Fourth of July is to Americans! With that said, the big festivities such as parades and other events are held in the bigger cities such as Rome, whereas towns such as Arezzo us this national holiday to be with friends and family and celebrate by coming together and growing as a family and community! Find out all of the events going on in Italy here!

Boomer and I can't wait to see what else Arezzo and Italy have in store for us!

"These streets are empty, but that flag is pretty!"

Ciao for now

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