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Amici di Italy Magazine,
La Primavera, spring, is a wonderful time to explore Italy.
Traditional Easter rituals starting on Palm Sunday and finishing on Easter Sunday, coupled with a warm spring atmosphere and special seasonal food, add more interesting elements to a trip around the country.
If you are planning a spring holidays in the Bel Paese during Easter, do not miss Carol King's feature about some of the most popular Easter celebrations in Italy.
This is also the right time of the year to taste the best ricotta cheese, as in the spring pastures are green and dotted with wildflowers. The perfect time to try famous pastry chef Salvatore De Riso's Ricotta and Pear cake recipe, which seems to have been one of Pope Giovanni Paolo II's favourite Italian dessert.
And this week, more than 200,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square in Rome for the inauguration Mass of Pope Francis. He will meet with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, next Saturday in Castel Gandolfo, where Benedict has been staying since his historic resignation.
We talked to Italian artist Dario Gambarin who dedicated his latest Land Art piece to the Pope Emeritus, a gigantic dove drawn on a rural field with his tractor.
A presto!
ITALY team
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