ADVENTURE ! WITHOUT A SCRIPT....: INFIORANTE DI SPELLO

ONE OF THE EVENTS WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT AND SEEN PHOTOS OF IS THE GREAT SPELLO EVENT CALLED ' INFIORANTE DI SPELLO '
( THE FLOWERS OF SPELLO )

FOR MONTHS THE CITTA OF SPELLO PREPARES
FOR THIS ONE DAY WHERE THEY PUT DOWN ON THE COBBLED STREETS THE PICTURES THEY WILL FILL IN WITH THE PETALS OF THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS!!!!!! OF PETALS. A MONTH BEFORE WE WOULD SEE DOORS OPEN TO SHOW THE ELDEST WOMEN SITTING SLOWLY STRIPPING PETALS OFF OF DIFFERENT FLOWERS, LAUGHING AND TALKING FOR HOURS. WE WONDERED WHAT THEY WERE DOING..THIS TAKES PLACE ON A SUNDAY USUALLY THE SECOND WEEK OF JUNE ON THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND AT ONE THERE IS A PROCESSION WITH THE BLESSED SACRAMENT THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNE.
WE HAD THE BEST VIEW FROM OUR ROOF TOP TERRACE...IT HAD BEEN POURING RAIN FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS, EVEN ON THE SATURDAY BEFORE, BUT BY 7PM PEOPLE WERE OUT BEGINNING A PROCESS THAT WOULD TAKE THEM THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! HERE ARE SOME WONDERFUL PHOTOS OF THIS AMAZING EVENT BY THE SPELLOITES!!!

OUR STREET!!! TOP TO BOTTOM!!!