1. XII – 2010

2. Bologna – Emilia Romagna
Italian sophistication at Christmas

3. Trento – Trentino-Alto Agide
Xmas Tree in front of Santa Maria - the Church where the Council of Trent was held

4. Bologna – Emilia Romagna
Christmas is coming and Bologna is getting ready...

5. Assisi – Umbria
Christmas Eve – The Mass of the Rooster will soon begin

6. Capri – Campania
The Piazzeta, even more beautiful by Christmas lights

7. Milano – Lombardia
Xmas decoration

8. Cesenatico a Natale - Emilia Romagna
esenatico
The whole port area has become a Christmas Crib (Presepe) disposed on old boats

9. Bolzano – Trentino-Alto Adige
Christmas Market

10. Firenze – Toscana
Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) at Christmas

11. Grazzano Visconti - Emilia Romagna
everybody busy in the kitchens cooking Christmas dinner

12. Genova – Liguria
The Mazzini Gallery

13. Milano – Lombardia
The Duomo - Santa Maria Nativity Cathedral

14. Napoli – Campania
detail of a Napolitan alley - which is not a city but a state of beeing!

15. Milano – Lombardia
one of the streets with the city’s best commerce

16. Modena – Emilia Romagna
Christmas lights projected on the building at Piazza Grande (Large Square), Modena

17. Napoli – Campania
Struffoli - typical Napolitan Christmas candy

18. Milano – Lombardia
Christmas snow in Duomo Square

19. Napoli – Campania
The Umberto I Gallery

20. Napoli – Campania
Tree of wishes - a fine tradition at Umberto I Gallery

21. Palermo – Sicilia
Theater Massimo

22. Verona – Veneto
Arena

23. Napoli – Campania
Old Naples – La Pignasecca food market

24. Palermo – Sicilia
Vicolo Burgiò at Christmas

25. Pompei – Campania
Christmas little market

26. Milano – Lombardia
At Moschino’s window shop in Via Sant’Andrea – Santa Claus in Psychoanalysis

27. Roma - Lacio
Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti

28. Ravenna – Emilia Romagna
Merry-go-round

29. Roma - Lacio
Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City

30. Milano – Lombardia
Duomo Square - Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery

31. Milano – Lombardia
Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery – Milan's most elegant shopping mall

32. Milano – Lombardia
Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery – Christmas decoration – detail

33. Roma - Lacio
Coliseum and Christmas tree

34. Roma - Lacio
Santa Claus at Piazza Navona

35. Sorrento – Campania
Christmas in Tasso Square

36. Roma - Lacio
Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City

37. Udine – Friuli-Venezia Giulia
San Giacomo Square

38. Roma - Lacio
Pantheon and Christmas tree

39. Salerno – Campania
Christmas decoration

40. Vicenza – Veneto
Santa Claus with white horses – Italian creativity

41. Sardegna – Autonomous Region of Sardegna
Cagliari, Sardinia - The Bastion of St. Remy

42. Torino – Piemonte
Christmas time

43. Trento – Trentino-Alto Agide
the Christmas tourist little train

44. Taranto – Puglia
Downtown at Christmas

45. It’s Italy... Alfa... enough!

46. Trieste – Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Christmas rain

47. Venezia – Veneto
Gondoliers as Santa Claus

48. Roma – Lacio - Basilica of Santa Maria at Trastevere, Rome – Christmas Lunch of the
Sant'Egidio Community with more than 700 needy friends

49. Verona – Veneto
A romantic Christmas tree

50. Murano – Veneto
A Christmas tree in glass, Murano of course

51. Venezia – Veneto
Venice in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve

52. Torino – Piemonte
… and after Christmas dinner ... delights of a bakery...
...

53. Images: from the Internet, with credits to the authors
Music: Bianco Natale - White Christmas – Andrea Bocelli
Creation, research, compiling and formatting : Delza Dias Ferreira
delzadfer@hotmail.com
Review of the Italian and English version : Flavio Musa de F. Guimarães
Technical collaboration : Claudia Ricci
Brazil – São Paulo – XII - 2010
www.culturesandart.com

54. White Christmas
Music and lyrics - Irving Berlin – 1942
Bianco Natale - Irene Grandi
Col bianco tuo candor, neve
sai dar la gioia ad ogni cuor,
è Natale ancora
la grande festa
che sa tutti conquistar.
Un canto vien dal ciel, lento
che con la neve dona a noi
un Natale pieno d'amor
un Natale di felicità.
Tu, neve scendi ancor lenta
per dare gioia ad ogni cuor,
alza gli occhi
e guarda lassù,
è Natale non soffrire più.
Quel lieve tuo candor, neve
discende lieto nel mio cuor ...
Tu, dici nel cader neve
il cielo devi ringraziar,
alza gli occhi
e guarda lassù,
è Natale non soffrire più.

55. Fine