Easter in Abruzzo in a simple snapshot: exploring its ceremonies and processions over the revered holy weekend and recipes eaten locally to welcome spring and take on the first picnic of the year
Sulmona’s Easter re-enactment of ‘La Madonna che Scappa’ (Running Madonna) is a great reason to swing by this medieval city, famous as the birthplace of Ovid, sugared-almond Confetti and red garlic) on Easter Sunday morning
I felt compelled to visit Chieti’s La processione del Venerdì Santo, Italy’s oldest Easter Good Friday procession after a friend said how it’d make the hairs on my neck stand up