Italian Easter

Italian Easter posts cover Pasqua, the most important Christian holiday in the Italian calendar. Articles look at the Holy Week processions in Sicily, especially the Misteri di Trapani that runs for almost twenty-four hours, the Scoppio del Carro in Florence with the cart and the dove, the long Easter Monday picnic tradition known as Pasquetta, the colomba dove-shaped cake that mirrors panettone at Christmas and regional dishes like the casatiello bread of Naples and the abbacchio roast lamb of Lazio. There are also notes on the rules around eggs and the chocolate versions sold in every pasticceria.