
Principali Eventi in Umbria
CALENDIMAGGIO AD ASSISI
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Perugia - From 01 to 08 May
Upon the first of Assisi is a spring festival in medieval costume (1200/1450 approximately). The city is divided into two parts, the Upper Part and Noble Magnifica Parte de Sotto, challenge to win the Palio. The challenge is through the holding of parades in costume, acted scenes and musical performances. To judge the ability to represent the spring by the two factions, called a jury of international experts. The jury, consisting of three experts, a historian, a musicologist and a personality from the entertainment world, will award, at the end of the event, a court-preference. The sum of the ratings-preference attributes the victory to one of the two sides.
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CORSA DEI CERI
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Perugia - From 13 to 16 of May
The religious festival is held on the eve of the death of the patron saint Ubaldo and secular traditions. The candles are three enormous wooden machines weighing about four pounds each, surmounted by statues of St. Ubaldo, St. George and St. Anthony, brought to the shoulder from the center to the summit of Mount Ingino, where stands the basilica of the saint patron. The festival, which takes place during the day, is one of the most unique events in Italy. E 'imbued with a strong mystical emotion that draws the audience. The Ceri of Gubbio were hired to coat the Umbria Region.
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UMBRIA JAZZ
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Perugia - from 08 to 17 july 2011
The first edition dates back to 1973 and is today one of the most important, if not the most important jazz festivals in Europe. None of the great masters of contemporary jazz missed the appointment with Umbria Jazz .. The famous Clinics, Jazz training seminars of about two weeks held directly from the teachers of the renowned Berklee School of Music in Boston.
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GIOSTRA DELLA QUINTANA
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Perugia - From 03 to 11 June and from 29 September to 02 October
The festival, revived in 1946, was inspired by a horse race that dates back to the seventeenth century, which aimed to determine the order of priority for a knight of honor in loyalty to the prince or the lady of his heart. Today, ten knights, representing the ten districts of Foligno, measure their skills in trying to put a series of rings of progressively smaller diameter, holding a spear at a running horse. This race has the ring very spectacular results. The night before the competition, held in the Stadium, a procession of 600 people in costume parade through the streets of the city.
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EUROCHOCOLATE
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Perugia - From 14 to 23 October
Next year Eurochocolate become "an adult" (18th edition) and even now promises, as the pay-off, an event to be framed. The image chosen to represent Eurochocolate 2011 play, then on the photos or even better on the door-frame pictures. A frame of chocolate, so delicious that those who are captured within ... can not resist a bite. Next to the frame itself looks great Chocolamp, the lamp that simulates a 'cascade of melted chocolate that inviting a few days ago, right during Eurochocolate, met with so much favor with the public that 2 thousand copies sold in test sold out within two days.
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