History of the Carnival

People Carnevale,festa for antonomasia, assumes to Capua a particular meaning. Old capital of the people osco, that we remember conferred to the parties of character orgiastico a value of sacredness', Capua lives this party with fed feeling, almost raising otherwise not her to demand sopprimibile. Already' in the Middle Age and subsequently in the Renaissance the party was celebrated inside the houses, through rather licentious stage representations and often to the limits of the common ethic. Only some years later, in the period of the French domination, with the acquisition of the libertarian ideal and egalitari of the Revolution, the Carnival doors' from the houses to move himself/herself/themselves to the roads, returning the ownership to the people' of a party authentically his/her. Documented news of the first Carnivals of Capua exists, unwound himself/herself/themselves so' as today they develop him, that go up again at the end of the 800.You live in the memory of the capuanis the organized Carnivals, around the first ones of 900, from the cav.Lamanna. From the involvement of the workers of the Pyrotechnic one, dated in that years, the tradition of the construction of the allegorical wagons and the harness of the carriages was born. From these chocolates some were distributed of which to strong laxative stimulation. In the city theaters veglioni was organized, but the place appointed for the celebrations was as and' tuttoggi, the Judges' plaza where competitions of dance were developed and where you/they were sung the satirical verses that went under the name of "cicuzze." The whole population wore the traditional custom of the "Domino"; only from few years this tradition and' is partly supplanted by the constitution of the disguised groups, and from the consequent use to disguise himself/herself/themselves resorting to the more subjects' different.