聖誕日在晴朗的一天出發。
由於所有商店都在這天關門大吉，我們到Piazza Navona的聖誕市集看看。雖然年年都是賣同樣的商品，但這就是傳統呢！
我最喜歡鬼鬼祟祟的聖誕老人和美麗的天使。
在意大利，1月6日還是Public Holiday (La Festa dell'Epifania)，是和一個老婆娑有關的。我叫她做“聖誕老婆“。
According to the legend of la Befana (聖誕老婆), the Three Wise Men stopped at her hut to ask directions on their way to Bethlehem and to invite her to join them. She refused, and later a shepherd asked her to join him in paying respect to the Christ Child. Again she refused, and when night fell she saw a great light in the skies.
La Befana thought perhaps she should have gone with the Three Wise Men, so she gathered some toys that had belonged to her own child, who had died, and ran to find the kings and the shepherd. But la Befana could not find them or the stable. Now, each year she looks for the Christ Child. Since she can not find him, she leaves gifts for the children of Italy and pieces of coal (nowadays carbone dolce, a rock candy that looks remarkably like coal) for the bad ones．http://italian.about.com/library/weekly/aa120600f.htm.
意大利人像中國人一樣迷信。深信這些紅辣椒能將別人的bad wishes一一送走。
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