Floral carpet at the festival in Italy

Best time to visit Italy , if you want to catch the  incredible flower festival , it is May and June .

During this time of year , especially in the case of Christie , many Italian cities decorate their streets with flower petals , creating beautiful works of art ,

 ranging from simple geometric patterns to complex tapestries , for which artists inspire religious art and the famous paintings .

To create a flower carpet , the designers first chalk on asphalt draw a sketch of the future of the pattern , and then fill it with thousands of petals of

 various colors . Sometimes, to highlight the design circuit using earth or ground . In other cases, again, together with the colors used wood carving .

The whole process of creating masterpieces takes two or three days . Often, after , as the floral carpets are completed , the streets ustarivaet

processions or festivals .

1.  The practice of honoring deities and nobles , for example , emperors and warriors , since ancient times was shedding their flower petals .

 However, scientists believe , that the art of mosaic of flowers in the streets , began in Rome in 1625 year , when the Dry Benedetto and his son

Peter , used flower petals to decorate the Vatican Basilica on the feast of saints Peter and Paul , patron saints of Rome .

2.  Later , the artist and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini Baroque style ( 1598 - 1680) extended this tsvetotsnoe art throughout Rome , using it to

 festivals .

Custom decorations such flowers stopped in Rome in the seventeenth century , but the citizens of the Castelli Romani continued to keep the tradition . In 1778 year , this tradition has become part of the Christian feast of Corpus Domini in the town of Genzano , where bright floral rug lay in the center

of the longest main street . in the end , the various Italian cities began to celebrate Christie creating floral carpets .

3.  One of the best flower festivals are held today in Noto , Spello , Genzano , Bolsena , Br Orvieto , and the Abbey of Chiaravalle - Della - Colombes , near Fidenza .

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