A Year in Viterbo: Easter

Friday, May 30, 2014

Easter

Lots of chocolate and lots of bunnies...otherwise not a lot in common with our Easter traditions.

In Italy, kids get a uova (egg) made of chocolate and filled with a prize. No easter basket, jelly beans and egg hunts.

The other classic food for Easter is the colomba -- dove shaped bread (sweet) that's good for breakfast (french toast!!)

you can see the eggs in the back

felted Easter bunny

I can't say I went all out. Made some "baskets" (more like sacks made out of felted sweaters and lined with men's shirts) for the boys, felted this bunny and sewed a little cloth egg with a pocket.

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In August 2013, Whitney, Max and Rick moved to Viterbo, Italy for the school year. Whitney, who works for School Year Abroad (SYA), is working at SYA's school in Viterbo. Rick brought his work with him, plugging in via WIFI just off the terrace above Piazza Verdi. Max, taking the biggest cultural leap of the family, started first grade at the local, Italian-speaking public school. La Scuola Elementare di Silvio Canevari.

Viterbo is a small, wonderful city, well preserved from medieval times. An intact wall, built in the 13th century, surrounds the city. Excavation beneath the passages of the Papal Palace reveals artifacts of the Etruscan period dating back to about 500 BC. Narrow roads of successively larger, older cobblestones twist up and down from the well trodden main roads such as the Corso and Via Marconi, where we live.

Home of around 60,000 people, Viterbo draws widely as the provincial capital and feels more populous. It sustains, for example, more than 100 restaurants, a university, and at least a half dozen book stores.