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Europa Italia

title: CARNIVAL IN AOSTA VALLEY

subject date: 2007-10-29

caption: CARNIVAL'Landzette'a Doues. In the Combe-Froide, valley of the Great Saint Bernardo who connects the city of Aosta with Switzerland, in the carnival days is carried out various masked. The Landzette are the true protagonists of the carnival: with the most colorful masks and garments, inspired to the uniforms military but covered of mirrors and tapes multicolors, they express to contempo the elegance and aggressiveness. Their action in fact is characterized by provocative assaults regarding who he is stranger to the ritual, today reorganized in the limits of the good marked taste but a time from a behavior at the best of the violence. in hand they hold a horse tail in order to stimulate the spectators. Photography of and. Small, 2000

category: HIS

city: Europa

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country: Italia

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Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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continent: Europa

image century : XXI

image epoch: vuoto

licence: RM

subject century: XXI

subject epoch: vuoto

technique: Fotografia

id: 18600

file name: FSNgilardi_56757.jpg

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LandzettecustomsCarnevalepopular traditionsmaskritualWinterValle d \'AostamasksWintertraditional custom