#italian things

[sayitaliano]

Buon Compleanno, Tricolore!

Happy birthday to Italy’s flag!

January 7th, 1797: for the first time in history the Tricolore is used as the Repubblica Italiana’s official flag! It was different from now though, as it was born as the Repubblica Cispadana’s flag, the first Italian Sovereign State: it had the same colours, but they were disposed horizontally, with the red on top, and it had the Republic’s crest in the middle, with the letters R and C (Repubblica Cispadana).

It slowly became the National flag, after undergoing a few changes, on June 12th 1946, with a decree law, but we celebrate its birth today. Do you know the meaning of the 3 colours in our flag? :)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

In Italian news, Italians (the ones with at least a bit of common sense and awareness of the world) are worried because our prime minister has become super chummy with Elon Musk and wants to stipulate an agreement to entrust the country's communication systems to him.

[linda-with-an-i]

Brace yourselves, it's that time of the year again!

[mestruazioni]

[togetherhearted]

La ginnastica mentale che la mia testa ha fatto per arrivare a questa conclusione.

[tanktop-lou]

A text to your parents to announce berlusca's death is a must in cultura italiana

[raganella]

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[moondvncer]

christmas in italy also means that during the evenings of the 24th, 25th and 26th you get to watch the extended version of LOTR on national TV because apparently those who plan the airing schedules are huge nerds and I'm forever thankful to them

[vavuska]

Every European kid asking why it's called “Palms Sunday” If we bless everything except real palms:

Palm Sunday is a Christian holiday. As you might have guessed from the name, it’s on a Sunday — always the Sunday before Easter. That’s because it’s meant to commemorate Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem, a week before Easter Sunday.

However, plams doesn't grow up everywhere, so each Christian country adopted their own version.

In the memes I summarize some of the European traditions I know:

North Italy, Slovenia and Croatia: small olive branches are blessed and distributed to the faithfuls at Churches. In Slovenia there are also “butarica”, that is traditionally a bundle of greenery, flowers or colored wood shavings. In Ljubljana, they are made of colored wood shavings, similar to the Polish tradion illustrated below

South Italy: interweaving palm leaves

Germany, Austria, Finland and Hungary: pussy willow or catkin branches

Bulgaria: Willow twigs, something weaved into crowns with other flowers

Poland: the faithful bring to churches their own “palms” generally made from willow branches decorated with evergreen plants colorful and vibrant crepe paper flowers and green bilberry or juniper bushes affixed to the top of dried flowers and colorful dyed grasses.

Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007, dir. by Gore Verbinski

[alter-petrus]

Just a poll, out of curiosity.

Reblog for a larger sample.

[sayitaliano]

Valerio Minato's photo that won the Astronomy Picture of the Day Contest by NASA on December 25th, 2023.

In the picture: the moon, the Monviso Mount and the Basilica of Superga (on the Superga hill) outside Turin are all aligned. it took him 6 years to take this shot (and I take it as an example to never give up on your dreams).

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

anyway in case you don’t know it yet

[linda-with-an-i]

Anyways...

[the-tenth-arcanum]

how am I supposed to work today knowing Italians on tumblr are dancing on Berlusconi's grave

[maripr]

What a perfect day to watch all of zerocalcare's "this world can't tear me down". Now I've finished it and i have emptiness where my heart was. Moved to my core. What an important series.

[theoldgaylion]

La cosa più surreale del frociaggine gate è che la stampa del vaticano or whatever it is ha dovuto fare un comunicato ufficiale di scuse, IL VATICANO HA CHIESTO SCUSA A NOI FROC* L'HO CAPITE IN CHE TIMELINE SIAMO