Carnival of Ivrea
carnival ivrea festival northern italian city ivrea includes tradition throwing orange organized group known battle orange largest food fight italy surrounding country regarding origin popular account battle commemorates city defiance city tyrant either member ranieri family conflation thcentury ranieri di biandrate thcentury marquis william vii montferrat tyrant attempted rape young commoner often specified miller daughter evening wedding supposedly exercising droit du seigneur tyrant plan backfired young woman instead decapitated populace stormed burned palace year young girl chosen play part violetta defiant young woman every year citizen remember liberation battle orange team aranceri orange handler foot throw orange representing old weapon stone aranceri riding cart representing tyrant rank thcentury french occupation italy carnival ivrea modified add representative french army another adaptation story orange used symbolize removed testicle tyrant oldest ritual ivrea carnival include large bonfire similar ancient celebration linked end winter rise new spring battle hiatus since returned cancellation occurred – – core celebration based locally famous battle orange involves thousand townspeople divided nine combat team throw orange – considerable violence – traditional carnival day sunday monday tuesday carnival take place february occasionally march end night shrove tuesday solemn funeral traditionally end silent march close carnival general say goodbye everyone classical phrase dialect arvedse giobia n bot translated well see thursday one referring thursday carnival start next year one citizen elected mugnaia miller daughter legend ivrea ruled evil duke identified historian guido iii population really rose demolishing castle miller daughter la mugnaia violetta got married duke claimed droit du seigneur right spend night newly wed woman forced castle duke room violetta used opportunity cut head starting revolution eventually brought destruction castle today carriage said represent duke army orange thrower revolutionary originally bean thrown apple later th century orange came represent stone thrown king castle order demolish origin tradition throwing orange well understood particularly orange grow foothill italian alp must imported sicily estimated kilogram lb orange brought city mainly coming leftover winter crop southern italy historical foot aranceri team participate defense ivrea tyrant carted henchman aranceri asso di picche red blue jersey black neck scarf symbol single spade home ground main town square share second oldest throwing team created aranceri della morte black jersey red pant symbol white skull created aranceri tuchini del borghetto green jersey red pant black crow white field back created aranceri degli scacchi chequered black white jersey orange tower symbol created aranceri pantera nera black jersey black panther yellow field back created aranceri scorpioni darduino yellow jersey green pant black scorpion symbol created aranceri diavoli red yellow jersey red devil created aranceri mercenari maroon jersey yellow pant symbol yellow star maroon sword created aranceri credendari blue jersey yellow pant palazzo della credenza town arm symbol created gorehabba – cow dung fight following diwali india la tomatina – tomato fight spain pidakala war– cow dung fight following ugadi india songkran – water fight held thailand medium related carnival ivrea wikimedia common scacchi orange thrower team orange battle scacchi website battaglia delle arance – orange battle part carnival official website nine team aranceri piedi italian battle orange valentine day february bbc news minute second video italy host battle orange february bbc news second video