Last night we were treated to yet another procession through the streets. I’ve lost track of how many we had. These lesser processions are far smaller than Santa Rosa. Once again, no parking signs were posted, police whistles were blown, the parade route was prepared and on they came. This time they started at San Lorenzo, a small church in our neighborhood. They came down the next street up towards Porta Romana and then turned onto Via Garibaldi headed past Fontana Grande and down to Piazza del Plebescito. Since we didn’t have to face throngs of people, we simply stood on the corner near our apartment and watched the procession go by.
This time it was a procession for Madonna del Carmelo. All of the information I can find by Goggling is in Italian and I can’t decipher most of it, so I will leave it to the interested reader to figure out. Above are a few shots as the parade went by. There was a tempo group, representatives from a dozen or so churches, banner images of the sacred event and ultimately some sort of float-type image carried by bearers. This has become almost the standard parade ensemble here in Viterbo.
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