You Tube Video - Festa dei Serpari (Snakes)

A number of years ago we took a trip to the south of Italy. We visited the regions of Campangna and Puglia. On our way back to Rome we visited a small town in Abruzzo called Cocullo for the annual Snake Festival (Festa dei Serpari)

The whole town comes out with real snakes and they put them on a statue of their patron saint and march around town. Local television is always there and many people dress up in historical costumes. It's one long crazy day.

Here's a You Tube video of the event. The video is from an Italian variety show so you have to wait a minute for the snake festival to start. It's in Italian but you don't need to speak Italian to know what's going on when they get to the snake part.

Enjoy
John