Is one of the oldest events in the world and accounts for Putignanesi an important socio-cultural context. The Carnival of Putignano boasts two firsts: it is one of the oldest and certainly the longest of the World: Some scholars do indeed go up to 26 December 1394, during the solemn translation of the relics of St. Stephen Protomartire from a Monopoli to Putignano where are still kept in the church of S. Maria la Greca. The longest carnival in the end on the Shrove Tuesday as all the other carnivals, but even begins December 26 with the tradition of many centuries extension. The legend says that some farmers putignanesi while planting the vines joined the procession with the sacred dances, songs and verses to rhyme kissed. Over the centuries, the celebration of December 26 has lost some of its religious content in order to purchase more purely satirical and critical of the most famous of the city. 
The mask is representative of the Carnival of Putignano is Farinella, which dates back to 1953 by the graph Domenico and Castellano recalls that of a jolly, with the multicolored dress with patches and rattles applied on the three-pointed hat, and shoes on the neck. Originally 's dress was white and green, the colors of the city, and the character was represented in the act of making peace between a dog and a cat that symbolized the people of Putignano. 
The name derives from "Farinelli" food of an ancient civilization, a chickpea flour and particularly tasty roasted barley, which is used to mix sauces and gravies, or accompanied with freshly picked figs or as a meal for some special types of sweets. 
Disguised Courses are certainly the main attraction, with a majestic floats, masks the original character (miniature floats with satirical theme) and the colorful masked groups. The primordial "floats" of late nineteenth century were built on small carts or wagonswith agricultural straw and old clothes, was from 1903 that you began to use other materials such as cardboard and wood. Since 1935, however, thanks to the ingenuity 'of F.lli Pugliese is beginning' to use on regular paper forms in iron wire.
A river in full. The colors, the sounds, the emotions of the 4 courses thunderous Disguised Carnival of Putignano indelibly carve the imagination of a public increasingly impressive. Three Sundays to perdifiato between floats, character masks and masked groups, with the grand finale on Shrove Tuesday night, ready to offer the evening lights of a universe of many artistic ways. From 2006 was added as a summer parade, the second Saturday of July. The caravan holiday in the glance is more immediate than ready to slam against the majesty of floats made entirely of paper, and called to bring the scenes events of national and international note. Important issues in the most literal sense, linked to politics
and current affairs, solidarity and morality.
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