Carnevale in Italy: Battle of Oranges in Ivrea

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On the occasion of Carnival, fifty floats, nine teams of orange trees on foot and thousands of visitors wearing red caps, a symbol of neutrality, will transform the town into a real battlefield. The legend, the spectacularity and the layering of rituals, folklore elements...

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Carnevale in Italy: Battle of Oranges in Ivrea

Ivrea is famed for food-fighting carnival fun. One of Italy's most bizarre Carnevale traditions takes place in Ivrea, a town near Turin famed for its carnival celebrations, particularly the Battle of the Oranges. Staged during the final days of Carnevale, the spectacle evokes the historic defiance of the town's inhabitants who rose up against their tyrannical overlord in the Middle Ages after he attempted to rape the daughter of a miller, or "mu…