Good News In History, August 15
Good News In History, August 15 Today is Ferragosto, one of the most important public holidays on the Italian calendar. It is a unique institution, in which working people, typically professionals, take trips to the mountains/hills, the sea, or the cities for leisure, and will stay away between one and two weeks on either side of August 15th. Inaugurated by Caesar Augustus, declared holy by the Church as the date of the Assumption of Mary, and turned into a national unity exercise by the Fascists, it is one of the oldest continual public holidays in Europe. READ more about this unique holiday… (18 BCE) GNN editor Andy Corbley with his Fiancee in Capri for Ferragosto 2020. The term Ferragosto comes from the Latin words Feriae Augusti, or the Faire of Augustus. August in Italy is brutally hot and often dry. Trips to the mountains or the sea are therefore the perfect natural escape from the weather, and one of the reasons the concept of an August fair has survived through so many years. Unde…
