Celebrating New Yr in Rome: occasions, events and traditions.
From a cultural perspective, town hosts the Roma Gospel Competition on the Auditorium Parco della Musica, and The Nutcracker at Rome’s opera home, on New Yr’s Eve.
New Yr’s Eve clubbing and events
Capodanno events shall be held in bars, night time golf equipment and motels throughout town however bookings needs to be made as far upfront as doable.
New Yr’s meals
The standard Italian New Yr’s Eve meal consists of cotechino (much like salami), zampone (stuffed pig’s trotters), and lentils which are supposed to convey luck for the approaching yr, all washed down with a glass or two of prosecco or spumante.
Eating out
When you want to dine out on New Yr’s Eve it’s best to order your desk nicely upfront – and be ready to pay greater than normal.
Fireworks
The most effective locations to look at fireworks mild up the skies over Rome embrace the Gianicolo, over Trastevere, and Pincio, over Piazza del Popolo.
New Yr’s Eve traditions
A well known however almost-extinct Capodanno custom (in Rome not less than) entails folks throwing outdated objects out the window, symbolising their readiness to welcome within the new yr.
One other Italian superstition holds that sporting pink underwear when the clock strikes midnight will convey good luck for the yr forward.
Getting dwelling
New Yr’s Day Parade
The annual occasion entails US marching bands becoming a member of forces with Italian musical folks teams to carry out alongside majorettes, avenue performers, dancers and historic re-enactors, beginning in Piazza del Popolo at 15.30.
Capodarte
Rome will mark New Yr’s Day with Capodarte, a programme of greater than 80 free cultural occasions going down throughout town.
Plunge into the Tiber?
One of many metropolis’s most uncommon spectacles on New Yr’s Day is the Tuffo nel Tevere.At noon daredevil divers thrill the crowds by making the 17-metre plunge off Ponte Cavour into the icy waters of the Tiber beneath.
