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the Rome Chamber of Commerce to get the exact dates of these
events : Ente Provinciale per il Turismo,
via Parigi 11, 00185 Roma (tel. 463.748).
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Campionati
Internazionali di Tennis (May)
All'Ombra
del Colosseo (August)
Expo
Cartoon (mid-november)
Festa
di Santa Francesca Romana (March 9), Santa Francesca
Romana. Blessing of the city's cars, buses and trams.
Festa
di San Giuseppe (March 19), Trionfale area. St. Joseph's
(and Father's) Day. Street stalls, food, and music.
Good
Friday
(March/April - date varies in relation to Easter Sunday), Colosseum.
Procession of the Cross at 9:00 p.m. led by the pope.
Rome's
Birthday
(Sunday before April 21), Piazza dei Campidoglio.
Festa
della Primavera
(March/April), Piazza di Spagna and Trinita dei Monti. Azaleas
in the street and concerts.
Art
Exhibition
(April/May), Via Margutta.
International
Horse Show
(early May), Villa Borghese.
Antiques
Fair
(mid-late May), Via dei Coronari.
International
Tennis Championships
(late May), Foro Italico.
Flower
Festival (June, the Sunday after Corpus Domini),
Genzano, Castelli Romani, south of Rome. Streets are carpeted
with flowers.
Festa
di San Giovanni (June 23-24), Piazza di Porta San
Giovanni. Celebrated with meals of snails in tomato sauce, suckling
pig, a fair, and fireworks display.
Roma
Europa
(late June-late July), mainly in Villa Medici. Films, dance,
theater, and concerts.
Festa
di San Pietro
(June 29), many churches. Celebrations mark the feast of St.
Peter.
Expo
Tevere
(end June-mid-July), along the Tiber. Arts and crafts, food
and wine, music and fireworks.
Festa
de Noantri
(last two weeks in July), the streets of Trastevere. Feating,
processions and entertainment.
Arts
Outdoors
(July/August), Baths of Caracalla, Villa Ada, Ostia Antica,
by the Tiber, in parks. Opera, concerts, drama, and film.
Festa
della Madonna della Neve
(August 5), Santa Maria Maggiore. Legendary 4th century fall
of snow re-enacted with showers of white flower petals.
Ferragosto
(August 15), Santa Maria in Trastevere. Midsummer Roman holiday.
Almost everything closes down. Celebrations are held for the
Feast of the Assumption.
Art
Fair (September), Via Margutta.
Sagra dell'Uva (early September), Basilica of Constantine. Harvest
festival with grapes selling at bargain prices and lots of folksy
street entertainment.
Crafts
Fair
(last week September/first week October), Via dell'Orso, near
Piazza Navona.
Antiques
Fair (mid-October),
Via dei Coronari.
Festa
di Santa Cecilia
(November 22), Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and Catacombs of
San Callisto.
Vino
Novello Tasting
(late November), Campo de' Fiori.
Festa
della Madonna Immacolata (December 8), Piazza di
Spagna. Firemen climb up a ladder to place a wreath on the statue
of the Virgin Mary. Column in front of McDonald's.
Befana (mid-December-mid-January), Piazza Navona. Christmas
and children's market.
Nativity
Scenes
(mid-December-mid-January), many churches. Life-sized scene
in St. Peter's Square, collection at Santi Cosma e Damiano.
Midnight
Mass
(December 24), at most churches.
Christmas
Day
(Decmeber 25), St. Peter's Square. Blessing by the pope.
New
Year's Eve
(December 31), all over Rome. Fireworks displays, furniture
thrown out.
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