Northern Italy Has an Annual Tradition of Dunking One Controversial Politician in the River

Northern Italy Has an Annual Tradition of Dunking One Controversial Politician in the River

Northern Italy Has a Tradition of Dunking One Politician in the River Every Year In the northern Italian city of Trento, an annual tradition leaves local politicians shaking in their boots. The Tonca is a comical reenacting of an ancient punishment used from the 14th to 17th century in which one person is placed in a cage and dunked in the freezing waters of the Adige, the second-longest river in Italy. The tradition is part of the Feste Vigili…