Duration: 4 Days

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New Year’s Eve in Italy

New Year's Eve in Italy Trip with a special program and a music event. Enjoy new year's eve with ballet at the Teatro alla Scala Milan or the new year's concert in Venice or Florence.

Experience the New Year’s Eve in Italy with music at the famous opera house. You stay in a beautiful hotel within walking distance to the opera house and enjoy an exclusive program for 4 days. On New Year’s Eve, you will see a Ballet or a concert at the Teatro alla Scala Milan or the famous New  Year’s concert at the Teatro La Fenice.

Not in Italy, but in Vienna (Austria) takes place one of the most noticed new year’s concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic.

You can also ask us for other new yer’s events, such as the Teatro Verdi in Triest or Teatro Filarmonico in Verona.

With a typical gourmet New Year’s Eve dinner “Cenone” welcome the New Year in an elegant restaurant. Overall a balanced program with leisure time for private hours.

New Year’s Eve Traditions in Italy

How is New Year’s Eve celebrated in Italy?

As we know, eating well with friends is a very important part of Italian life. Especially on New Year’s Eve, which is celebrated with the big New Year’s Eve menu, the Cenone. This consists of many courses, each of which is served with the appropriate type of wine. Traditionally there is fish and seafood, but in the mountainous regions, it is more meat dishes.
Many restaurants offer the Cenone. Then dance music plays and in between, you try your luck at the lottery.

At midnight, as everywhere else, they toast with spumante and welcome the new year with rockets, as far as the environment allows.

Lentils and Cotechino

Lentils with cotechino is a typical Italian dish. In order for the new year to bring luck and enough money, lentils with cotechino are eaten right at the beginning of the year. The tradition has been around since the Roman Empire. Lentils in a leather pouch were given to each other with the wish that they would turn into gold coins. However, this tradition is no longer widespread today, and the desire for a windfall has remained.

Other foods such as pomegranates and grapes are also important as a wish for happiness and wealth.

Cotechino is a boiled pork sausage that is cooked for about 2 hours when you get it fresh from the butcher. You can also get pre-cooked cotechino in the supermarket.
Alternatively, you can eat the lentils with zampone, a stuffed pig’s foot.

Red Underwear

On New Year’s Eve, men and women traditionally wear all kinds of red underwear. In this way, you can ensure happiness in love for the whole of the coming year.
You may have wondered why the shop windows are filled with red lingerie after Christmas.

The Origins of San Silvestro – Capodanno

Pope Silvestro I died in Rome on December 31, 335. The Christian festival of San Silvestro was already celebrated in his honor in ancient Rome. Today it is called Capodanno in Italy and is a happy but little Christian celebration.

Italian New Year Wishes

We wish each other BUON ANNO and Felice Anno Nuovo!

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