The longest-running Italian Carnival in Putignano in Apulia is 630 years old. Its festivities began on the second day of Christmas, December 26, and will run until Shrove Tuesday, which falls on ...

A mannequin of Premier Giorgia Meloni doing a Fascist salute was burned at the end of an anti-fascist' carnival at a town near Rieti north of Rome, spurring bipartisan condemnation and solidarity with ...