Thursday, 11 July 2013

Battle of the Oranges in Ivrea, Italy

Date: 9 - 12 Feb 2013                 Place: Centro storico And Borghetto, Ivrea in Italy



One of the favorite and popular festivals in Italy is orange fighting that named " Battle of the Oranges " . Every February, you can see this happy festival in small town Ivrea in Italy. There is no correct  and clear information about origin of this ceremony.
 The public story about this festival refers to defense against a cruel that come to rape a young rural. Instead of him, the young women was capture by this cruel and the people struggle with simple thing like stone  and arrest him and burnt his place.  Every year in February moon, they gather to remember this liberation with this festival. they divided to 9 group and fight to the ancient cart as a sample  of cruel and orange as a primary weapon.

this festival held 3 days in the small town Ivrea in Italy.

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