Tag: halloween in Italy

The heart of Halloween in the Marche: Corinaldo

Corinaldo CC BY 2.0, Francesco Gasparetti

Trick or treat? Also in Italy? positive. Italians are fascinated by this Anglosaxon tradition and year after year the Halloween fever grows and develops!!!!

This is the reason why in this period thousands of people every year visit Corinaldo, a beautiful small and medieval town located in le Marche region, for a week full of spooky  excitement.

Corinaldo is by the way named as the Italian “Capital of Halloween“, with its Party of the Witches!!! In 2012 all the events start on October 26 and on October 30 an event has been held recently called Miss Witch, a competition for the most…horrible witch in town.

The performances every year evolve around a main theme; this year is ‘”THE DESIRE” on stage: “desire to love, to live, to have fun, to improve, to take part” as mentioned in the web site. For children? Scaring as ever you and your family will follow the spooky trail such as “THE TUNNEL OF FEAR”, “THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS”, “THE TOWER OF THE TRANSFORMATION” and “ZUCCHINO” a show  that fascinate and scare tons of children.

If you are in Italy for Halloween do not miss in Corinaldo the Tunnel of Fear and the House of Spirits. Along the streets of the town you can find a selection of pubs, live music, street performers and attractions. The 18 taverns in downtown will serve up food and wine specials with a Halloween taste. On Halloween night a show of music, fireworks, and lights all around the town with a big crowd will celebrate the passage of the ghosts.

Corinaldo is as above mentioned an exquisite example of old medieval town with a gorgeous castle enclosed by its ancient walls. The town is 20 kilometers inland, between the Marche coast and Pergola.

Halloween in Italy: a creepy and bloody discovery

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Halloween in Italy: but what to visit that retain a taste for the scaring that we like so much? There are spooky places in Italy that can be visited any time of year. Are you ready for exploring these creepy sights?
If you are in Italy on All Saint’s Eve (Halloween) try out the Urban Trekking, special walks and trail to medieval towers, crypts, dungeons, or castles.

Are you still looking for something different?

Benevento, in southern Italy, is called the City of Witches, a big part of its folklore.  Are witches not that gruesome? Several towns in Tuscany can offer torture museums with items used to torture victims during the Inquisition. San Gimignano has one of the best! Also in Umbria, beneath the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Narni, you can visit the underground torture chambers.

 

Talking about deads and the other world after life, go and visit San Michelle, the Venice‘s cemetery island with two churches and many tombs. In early November the cemetery is full of flowers for All Saint’s Day. Going south, more than 40,000 corpses has been dumped into a cave just outside the city walls of Naples, during  the plague.

Not recommended for young children, the mummy exhibition in Ferentillo’s Mummy Museum located below the Church of Santo Stefano in Umbria and the Mummies Cemetery in Urbania’s Church of the Dead in Le Marche are the creepiest places to visit.  Mummies are pretty scaring also near Palermo, Sicily, in the Capuchin Monastery , not to mentioned the Capuchin Crypt in Rome’s historic center.

Are you still in Rome? Plenty of scary places including catacombs and crypts, like the Museum of Purgatory, a Monster House, and the Vatican necropolis close to Rome. The scary trip can end here, but do not underestimate what can happen during Halloween even in Italy.