Ravishing Rotonda -8
Every year from 8 to 13 June in Rotonda we celebrate one of the unique marriages "among trees" that are distinctive of an ancestral Lucan tradition: "L'a 'pitu e la rocca".
The "bride" and the "groom" are a fir and a beech, one uprooted from the woods of Terranova di Pollino, the other divelto in the locality of Piano Pedarreto, always in the splendid scenery of the Pollino Park.
In the following days, as two spouses, the plants "meet" and on the day of the "wedding", as happens in the greater wall of the Lucanian arboreal rites, the profane party merges with the sacred one, with the procession of the Saint, Saint Anthony , through the streets of the village.
Songs, dances, good food animate the ritual, as in any self-respecting "marriage", on the other hand.
Ravishing Rotonda -8
Every year from 8 to 13 June in Rotonda we celebrate one of the unique marriages "among trees" that are distinctive of an ancestral Lucan tradition: "L'a 'pitu e la rocca".
The "bride" and the "groom" are a fir and a beech, one uprooted from the woods of Terranova di Pollino, the other divelto in the locality of Piano Pedarreto, always in the splendid scenery of the Pollino Park.
In the following days, as two spouses, the plants "meet" and on the day of the "wedding", as happens in the greater wall of the Lucanian arboreal rites, the profane party merges with the sacred one, with the procession of the Saint, Saint Anthony , through the streets of the village.
Songs, dances, good food animate the ritual, as in any self-respecting "marriage", on the other hand.