July in Santa Maria la Carità
S. Maria la Carità is a little town not very far from Pompei, C/Mare and Sorrento. It can be considered a typical Italian country town where old traditions and culture are preserved and emphasized. Every year this town organizes an event which starts the last sunday of june and ends at the end of july: “Luglio Sammaritano” (which obtained a silver medal from the Presidency of Italian Republic). Luglio Sammaritano starts with the Medieval Tournament, in which all the population is divided into different quarters and fight for acquiring the glory. This competition comes from the old tradition of spending warm summer days playing and having fun all together and so born the Medieval Parade. During the parade all the community marches in the town wearing old dressed. One of the competition of the tournament is the “Palio del Ciuccio” in which, just for fun, some donkeys (belonged to a...
