Easter is important here in Le Marche hill-towns. Today, along with the traditional Good Friday procession, families are arriving home for the weekend. Cellophane wrapped Easter eggs the size of a child have appeared in the bakers, meringue cakes in the shape of agnelli (lambs) and colomba pasquale (almond sugared dove-shaped cakes) are being created and given with much generosity. And at the same time the fields around are ploughed and sown, the vines pruned and tied, the fruit trees neatly shaped and covered in delicate blossom. This morning I passed two doves sitting in a cherry tree. At Easter the farms and the feste seem to me quite inseperable.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Good Friday
Easter is important here in Le Marche hill-towns. Today, along with the traditional Good Friday procession, families are arriving home for the weekend. Cellophane wrapped Easter eggs the size of a child have appeared in the bakers, meringue cakes in the shape of agnelli (lambs) and colomba pasquale (almond sugared dove-shaped cakes) are being created and given with much generosity. And at the same time the fields around are ploughed and sown, the vines pruned and tied, the fruit trees neatly shaped and covered in delicate blossom. This morning I passed two doves sitting in a cherry tree. At Easter the farms and the feste seem to me quite inseperable.
