{"id":369,"date":"2025-01-07T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-01-07T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:56:26","slug":"the-valsesia-carnival-kicks-off-let-the-varallo-festivities-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"The Valsesia Carnival Kicks Off: Let the Varallo Festivities Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The carnival season officially starts with the traditional sentencing of Marcantonio&#8217;s mother.<br><strong>Varallo Carnival Begins: The Veggia Pasquetta Ends Up on the Pyre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday evening, Sunday, January 5th, marked the start of the Varallo Carnival. As is tradition, the opening was led by the Dughi of Varallo Vecchio, who organized the \u201cGran Bal d\u2019la Veggia.\u201d The group appeared with the confirmed return of Cristian Calzino and Giorgia Miglio as the main masks, Dugo and Duga. Among the returning participants was Fabio Alberti, who has played the role of Dugo for many previous editions, joined by Mattia Valle, Federico Perrone, Martina Midolo, Lavinia Selene, and Sara Pellegrini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Today Marks the Veggia Pasquetta Celebration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Monday, January 6th, the city committee took to the streets to welcome Marcantonio in swaddling clothes and his mother, the Veggia Pasquetta. This year, the role was played by Simone Raffa, who, as always, tried every trick to evade capture by the guards and avoid her sentencing. However, there was no escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official parade, accompanied by the city\u2019s Musical Band and the group \u201cFlag Throwers and Musicians of the Palio di Asti, Rione San Pietro,\u201d started from Mario Tancredi Rossi Square. After being captured and condemned, the Veggia Pasquetta faced her fate: a puppet representing the mask was burned on the banks of the Mastallone River, beneath the Antonini Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anticipation for the New Cecca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With today\u2019s celebration, the carnival period has officially begun. Many residents of Varallo eagerly await the reveal of the 2025 Cecca, whose identity will be announced this Saturday during the \u201cGran Ball d\u2019la Cecca,\u201d scheduled for 10 p.m. at the \u201cItalo Grassi\u201d municipal gymnasium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Immagine-WhatsApp-2025-01-06-ore-16.16.27_59d7fd88-1.jpg\" alt=\"Varallo Sesia carnival begin\" class=\"wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Immagine-WhatsApp-2025-01-06-ore-16.16.27_59d7fd88-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Immagine-WhatsApp-2025-01-06-ore-16.16.27_59d7fd88-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Immagine-WhatsApp-2025-01-06-ore-16.16.27_59d7fd88-1-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: notiziaoggi.it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sesiavalley X page: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SesiaValley\">https:\/\/x.com\/SesiaValley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesiavalley.com\">www.Sesiavalley.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carnival season officially starts with the traditional sentencing of Marcantonio&#8217;s mother.Varallo Carnival Begins: The Veggia Pasquetta Ends Up on the Pyre Yesterday evening, Sunday, January 5th, marked the start of the Varallo Carnival. As is tradition, the opening was led by the Dughi of Varallo Vecchio, who organized the \u201cGran Bal d\u2019la Veggia.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,30,31,10],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eng","tag-carnival","tag-italy","tag-sesia-valley","tag-varallo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesiavalley.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}