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characterized this feast was the awarding given for several
contests: for the best looking shop windows, the more beautiful
lights, the best stand, the more delicious dessert or ice cream,
the best cook of pistachio
flavored meals and so on.
To reward
the winners of the Miss Etna competition was the Lord Major
senator Firrarello, with the alderman Melo Salvia and the deputy
Lord Major Nunzio Calanna.
The winners were the twenty years old
Roberta Proietto Billorello from Randazzo and the sixteen years
old Angela Vecchio from Fiumefreddo.
Both extremely beautiful and
absolutely lovely.
Also the splendid Silvia Longhitano, fifteen
years old from Bronte won the band of «Miss photogenes».
But
some of the various bands won by all the other participating girls
were given by Nino Liuzzo and Sam Di Bella who represented, with
Franco Cimbali, the Association «Bronte Insieme».
In occasion of the feast, the Municipal Administration has chosen
to thank and reward the Association with a plate «for the
constant activity of cultural promotion of the city of Bronte».
The Feast goes on with the
prize giving of an extempore painting
exhibition, the flag-waving performers and
the band of Motta Sant'Anastasia.
Then there shall be the tasting of the great
pistachio cake.
Senator Firrarello and the regional alderman to
agriculture Giovanni La Via, shall cut the first slice of this
forty meters long cake, made by Bronte’s confectioners, and that
shall be divided and offered to all visitors.
At the end of all
evening shows the Feast shall be closed with a series of
impressive fireworks.
The Pistachio Feast (italian version) |
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