Attend Infiorata Festival in Italy

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Many Italian towns hold an infiorataduring May and June. This flower art festival is a great folkloristic and religious exhibition. A whole street is covered with allegorical carpets of flowers and a masked parade walk on these, with medieval and traditional clothes realized by town's women. For more than 2 centuries (from 1778) on Sunday and Monday following Corpus Christus feast the Infiorata a most suggestive manifestation of art, pride of the artists of Genzano has taken place. Each year the artists suggestions must conform to a previously agreed upon theme, such as The Colours of Michelangelo, or The Designs of Bernini. In the spring it has recently become tradition to have a "mini Infiorata" made by the children from the local schools. One of the most famous infiorata festivals is in Noto, Sicily, usually held the weekend of the third Sunday in May. The magic also happens in the small town, Spello, in Umbria, Italy, which hosts it’s annual Infiorata when, overnight, the whole town pitches in to create a 2 km long floral carpet winding up the cobblestoned main road.

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