{"id":5456,"date":"2023-01-06T05:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5456"},"modified":"2023-01-06T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T10:08:59","slug":"national-befana-day-urbania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/national-befana-day-urbania\/","title":{"rendered":"National Befana Day \u2013 Urbania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4-5-6 January. In her official home, the Befana brings happiness to young and old<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche.jpg 750w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche-600x371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche-97x60.jpg 97w, https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche-145x90.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><p>Italy by Events &#8211; <strong>On January 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2023<\/strong>, is taking placein\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Urbania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Urbania<\/a>, the ancient Casteldurante, the\u00a0<strong>26th edition<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>National Befana Day<\/em><\/p><p><strong>At National Befana Day<\/strong>, like every year, the Befana descends from the bell tower and lands in the square&nbsp;delivering&nbsp;sweets and candies&nbsp;among&nbsp;a blaze of lights and music.<\/p><p><strong>In the Befana Post Office<\/strong>, children can write their own letters with the help of the vice-witches who then sit around the fire and tell fairy tales.<\/p><p><strong>And there is also the Befana House<\/strong>, located right under the town hall, where the old&nbsp;woman&nbsp;lives all year round. Here visitors can see the cauldron where she&nbsp;makes&nbsp;her potions, the collection of games, the parking&nbsp;lot&nbsp;of her flying broom and the bed where she rests after&nbsp;flying all day.<\/p><p><strong>In the streets of the city<\/strong>, children&nbsp;can&nbsp;also see&nbsp;<strong>the longest Befana Sock in the world<\/strong>, made&nbsp;every year by&nbsp;the witches of Urbania.<\/p><p><strong>In these days<\/strong>&nbsp;the Befana also&nbsp;turns Urbania into a&nbsp;\u201ctasteful&nbsp;city\u201d&nbsp;in&nbsp;<strong>Chocolate square<\/strong>&nbsp;with chocolate, candies, cotton candy and sweet snacks, and&nbsp;<strong>Ristobefana<\/strong>, with many&nbsp;local&nbsp;specialties including Crostolo d\u2019Urbania,&nbsp;her&nbsp;favorite snack.<\/p><p><strong>During these&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>three days the key&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>to&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>the city&nbsp;<\/strong>is&nbsp;also&nbsp;entrusted&nbsp;by the Mayor to the Befana to emphasize that from January 4th&nbsp;to 6th&nbsp;she&nbsp;is the undisputed queen of the event.<\/p><p>We recommend always checking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.festadellabefana.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the website<\/a>\u00a0or on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/festa.befana.urbania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">facebook page<\/a>\u00a0for any changes to the program.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4-5-6 January. In her official home, the Befana brings happiness to young and old Italy by Events &#8211; On January 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2023, is taking placein\u00a0Urbania, the ancient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Festa-della-Befana-Marche.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5456\/revisions\/5458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}