Parades of allegorical floats, masked processions and enhancement of folk traditions. It is the Carnival celebrated in Naples and Campania!
The most colorful and fun party of the year is now upon us! Also Napoli, and many places of the Campania, get ready to celebrate the Carnival 2015, which will see its climax on 17 February, Fat Tuesday or even “Ultimo di Carnevale”.
Masks and disguises, parades of allegorical floats, parties, jokes and musical parades characterize the period of Carnival, whose origins can be understood by analyzing the word itself, which derives from the Latin carnem remove ("remove the flesh"), referring to the rich gastronomic banquet that was held on the last day of Carnival (Shrove Tuesday), before the long period of abstinence and fasting of Lent (the 40 days leading up to Easter).
In short, the Carnival it is therefore an explosion of joy and happiness and is celebrated, especially in our territory, by enhancing the folk and folk traditions that express themselves particularly on the occasion of the Carnival.
We offer you the parades of allegorical floats and masked parades not to be missed both Napoli that in some famous villages of the Campania, where the Carnival has become an appointment with culture, gastronomy and the history of individual places.
Carnival parades in Naples
The Carnival parades that will animate the city of Naples this year have become part of the Coordination of Naples Carnivals from below 2015, which followed the organization of the parades that will be held in different neighborhoods in a great event entitled O 'Carnival 2015.
In each of them the Carnival it is felt not only as an explosion of joy and happiness that will involve streets and squares, but it is also an opportunity for social redemption and the desire to regain possession and take care of abandoned and degraded places and city spaces. By entrusting the social and cultural rebirth to school children and young people, a positive symbol of a future that, hopefully, will always be better.
Carnival of Scampia | Sunday 15 February
Like every year, the most anticipated carnival parade in Naples is organized in the district of Scampia by the association GRIDAS (Gruppo RIsveglio DAl Sonno), created with the aim of stimulating an awakening in the consciences of Neapolitan citizens and promoting active participation in the growth of the city. The 33rd preparation of this Carnival is entrusted to laboratories followed by active citizens who meet since January to give life to the colorful final parade, manually creating masks, floats and costumes, in the name of recovering manual skills and recycling.
Will be held Sunday 15 February il Carnival procession of Scampia, Entitled "Pacifiers for what and for whom, that is School SCHOOL / MAL-TREATED School", referring to the very bad situation in which public schools are on a par with other public services in Italy, but with the aggravating circumstance that the school must (or should) shape the future of the country.
Departure:
- from the headquarters of GRIDAS to 10: 30 (Via Monte Rosa 90 / b, Ina Casa, Scampia, Naples).
Information on the GRIDAS website
Carnival of Materdei | Friday 13 February
Fifth edition of the Carnival of Materdei entitled "'Mmescafrancesca", because this year the theme will be a multidifferent society, where different languages, colors, stories, origins, gender differences represent a resource and not a negativity. Against any form of racism and intolerance.
Paper mache workshops every Thursday from 18.30 to 20.00 to the Liberated Garden of Materdei, via S. Raffaele 3.
- Departure: Friday 13 February at 10:00 from Piazza Scipione Ammirato
Information on the Facebook page
Soccavo Carnival | Thursday 12 February
The theme of the second edition of the Soccavo Carnival è “Let's mask the periphery“, With reference to taking off the mask of a place where there is nothing, where nothing can be done and demonstrate that, in a simple and spontaneous way, organized from below, it is possible to create beautiful things. The project of this carnival was carried out by the children of the Basile School, through workshops for creating musical instruments of the Neapolitan tradition e Masks using recycled materials.
- Departure on Thursday 12 February at 9.30 am from the Basile school in via Romolo and Remo + Party at the Don Gallo self-managed park
Information on the Facebook page
Carnival of Health | Friday 13 February
In Rione Sanità the sixth edition of the Carnival will be held “SPIAZZiAmoli, together to take back the spaces of the neighborhood and the city”.
It is a Carnival of social redemption, which will culminate in Piazza Cavour, one of the symbolic places of decay in the neighborhood, where too many episodes of petty crime occur and where the homeless often take refuge, abandoned. The protagonists of the carnival will be the young people of the schools and educational centers in the area, who in the preparation workshops are experimenting, through play and creativity, new collective ways to take care of their city.
The procession will cross the symbolic places of the Health district and will end in Piazza Cavour where there will be musical performances, photographic exhibitions and street laboratories organized by the socio-educational realities that together with Traparentesi Onlus promote the initiative.
- Departure on Friday 13 February from Piazza Sanità at 9:30 am
Information on the site of Traparentesi Onlus
Carnival of the Historical Center | Tuesday 17 February
In the spaces ofFormer Filangier Kindergartencreative-constructive workshops have been held since January, aimed at children from 0 to 99 years old, to invent together the parade of the usual Carnival of the Historical Center, Entitled “The right to the city”. The next events will be held on Saturday 7 February and 14 February 14, from 16.30 to 18.30 pm at the Asylum in vico Maffei, 4.
The workshop is the result of the synergy between the visual artists of the Asilo, the collective Doposcuola as well as the Zero81 School (largo Banchi Nuovi) and the Centro Storico Committee.
- Departure on Tuesday 17 February at 15:00 pm from the headquarters of L'Asilo, vico Maffei 4
Other Carnival parades are planned in the neighborhoods of Bagnoli, Gianturco, Mercato and from Giugliano. Information on Coordination of Carnivals from the Bass.
Carnival parades in Campania
Many are the villages of the Campania where every year celebrations and celebrations are held on the occasion of the Carnival. Some of them can claim to represent fundamental moments of promotion and enhancement of the territory, through traditional customs and traditions, which have very distant origins over the centuries.
Here are the masked parades and processions not to be missed for this 2015 Carnival in Campania!
Carnival of Limatola (BN)
25th edition of the Carnival of Limatola, the charming village in the province of Benevento, famous for its medieval castle. Here in the days of8, 15 and 17 February will be held parades, shows, concerts of popular music, DJ sets, dance performances and musicals.
In the early afternoon there will be the parade of allegorical floats on the streets of the village. I will follow shows in the square, funeral lamentation and the funeral followed by the cremation of Carnival dead, scheduled for Fat Tuesday. The car more awaited will be that culinary which will distribute free of charge, parading through the streets of the town, mortadella, wood-fired bread, sardines, red wine from the hills of Caiata and the Sannio Benevento area.
On the occasion of the Carnival you can also book packages that include a guided tour of the Castle medieval, with lunch in one of the thirteen restaurants in the area to savor the dishes of local cuisine.
More information on the program on official site of the EPT Benevento
Strianese Carnival (NA)
Il Striano Carnival has reached its 32nd edition and is considered one of the most important in Campania but also in Italy, thanks to its huge and beautiful allegorical wagons.
Striano is transformed, in occasion of the Carnival, into a real one Citadel of the Carnival, set up in via Poggiomarino, where districts of the town, “Arco”, “Piazza”, “Troccole”, “Marzo” and “Saudone”, are preparing to make their own allegorical floats made of papier-mâché.
The parades of the wagons will be held in the days 14, 15, 17, 21 and 22 February.
More information on the Facebook page of the Strianese Carnival
Carnevale di Saviano (NA)
From the 1979 Saviano Carnival has the goal, through folk festivals and parades of allegorical floats, to counteract the habit of throwing eggs and flour to passers-by in the street, and to preserve the history and peasant traditions of the Nola area.
Over the years the Saviano Carnival it has become one of the most famous in Campania, attracting thousands of visitors from all over the region. Here the celebrations begin on January 17 with O 'Fucarone and Sant'Antuono, and continue until Shrove Tuesday, between popular evenings and parades of allegorical floats and masked groups in the various districts and districts of the town. The climax of the party will be on February 17 with the Great Carnival Parade and Pizza Village of the Savianese Carnival, with the participation of the best Neapolitan pizza makers.
More information on the official website of the Saviano Carnival
Palmese Carnival (NA)
A Palma Campania Carnival has been experienced, since 1600, as a moment of authentic folklore, which expresses the true essence of a centenary tradition and the most genuine cultural character of historical memory. The Carnival Palmese not only famous for its allegorical floats, but for the spectacular events, concerts of popular music and dances that involve the whole population, and for the Quadrille race.
Le quadrille they are local folkloristic groups composed of about two hundred participants (the quadriglianti), who perform live with the use of traditional Neapolitan instruments (tamburrelle, putipù, triccaballacchi, scetavajasse and acciarini). Each Quadrille is accompanied by a musical band playing wind or percussion instruments. Costumes and musical pieces are based on a unique theme chosen by the committee of their own quadrille. Scenography and choreography transform every performance into a real popular musical!
There are three days of partying Carnival of Palma Campania. From Sunday to Shrove Tuesday.
- Sunday 15 February 2015 16 hours: 00
Quadrille parade through the streets of the historic center with exhibition and presentation of the theme and the figures. - Monday 16 February 2015 hours 20: 00
Passo delle Quadriglie, each committee goes out on the city streets with its own choreography, and stages a taste of concert in the historical points of the country. - Tuesday 17 February 2015 15 hours: 00
Shrove Tuesday, each committee performs with its own concert in the five stations planned this year in addition to the main stage. Each group must present the theme and the music between itinerant jurors and secret vote to secure the Final Palio.
More information on official website of the Palmese Carnival
Carnival of Montemarano (AV)
Il Carnival of Montemarano is one of the most famous in Campania that, unique in its kind, takes place at the rhythm of tarantella through the streets of the charming historic center. Here the Carnival is a real popular tradition that explodes in all its energy and its colors from Sunday to Tuesday Grasso, including lessons of tarantella, sfulate of the parades masked on the streets of the country and reviews of popular music. To then continue after Carnival, the 22 February, with the celebration of Dead Carnival, with the staging of the funeral procession of the Carnival with a burlesque and mocking spirit, staging a plot of village satire, with masks dressed in mourning.
More information on official website of the Carnevale di Montemarano
Carnival of Agropoli (SA)
Also the Cilentan village of Agropoli celebrates, from 44 years, his Carnival, between masked processions and allegorical floats that will travel along the Lungomare San Marco to the historic center. There will also be a very funny Bullfight where participants will compete by performing in the numbers they want. Many appointments also for the Carnival of the little ones.
More information on official website of the Agropoli Carnival
