Cantamaggio This is a festival celebrates the return of spring and the awakening of nature from its winter sleep, the origins of the event seem to be able to bring back to pagan rituals and tribal practices related to rural that they intended to celebrate the return of good weather and in a certain way to thank the gods for favorable summer harvest. The current
Cantamaggio, in fact, inspired by an ancient city habit: the "Maggiaioli" also called "maggianti", whose literal translation is to be "holders of May" (a flowering branch to which was suspended a lantern) went from house to house singing folk songs and love songs, often received in exchange for money or food and then planting the twig in the ground for good luck and fertility. (Wikipedia)
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