Since over 30 years the GRIDAS cultural association organizes the carnival in Scampia, the popular district of Naples, especially for the facts narrated by the writer Roberto Saviano in “Gomorrah”. Each year, schools and citizens participating in this parade that ends with a large bonfire burning the main carriage as a wish for all participants.…
A corner of Rome, torn from decay, from drug dealing and prostitution that had now invaded him for some time, since as often happens in this city, the construction of what was to become a small sports center close to the station, they had stopped, leaving him completely. To clean it up and remove it…
The catholic rite of penitents called “battenti” which is celebrated every holy Friday, in the village of San Lorenzo Maggiore, in the south of Italy is an ancient penitential rite where men and women with their faces covered hitting a sign of penance during the procession between the two churches in the country, is a…
Vevcani, is a Macedonian village on the border with Albania, so close to the border that its inhabitants have decided to self-declared “Republic of Vevcani”. A village where the atmosphere of old times. Every year they celebrate the carnival in Vevcani on January 13, the day of St. Basil the Great, a day that according…
In Rome, in the popular neighborhood Pietralata, there is a football team that like many others every week takes the field to participate in an amateur league. This team is called Liberi Nantes and consists of young asylum seekers immigrants fled from their countries, making a long journey in search of fortune, now they living…
