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Giorgio Locatelli

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682 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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I mean, there is this place, it's called Modica.

And the city is cut, the city, the fat village is cut in half by the river.

People live on this side and on this side, and then at the top, they have this church.

And so then from the morning, from Easter morning, the Madonna is, they carry the Madonna with the band on one side and they're all chasing each other.

And then when it comes 12 o'clock, the city's empty and there is only the band and these people and everybody's behind the things looking out the window.

And then when they get to 12 o'clock, they get to the central square

And suddenly, thousands of people arrive and they get close to it.

And then everybody says, vaza, vaza, which means kiss.

Vaza, vaza, vaza, vaza, vaza.

And when they lift up the thing and when the Madonna touches the Christ...

they underneath this sort of thing that they carry is all these birds, all these doves, and they all have like something attached to their feet and they let them out and they all fly out.

And wherever they go, that tells them, I mean, obviously it's not true, but it tells them what it's going to be like, because you see, it's like spring is coming.

And so the new season is coming.

And so that's a very felt things from there.

Well, Italians are the ones who are managing to charge more money for it.

Oh, so... But, like, you know, it depends, you know.

Obviously, the Italians have kind of, like,

were taught a way to produce the olive oil very fast as soon as they pick the olive.