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Carnevale dei Bambini
di Orentano

Carnevale dei Bambini di Orentano, 70th edition. Masked parades with allegorical floats: Sundays 24 and 31 January, Sunday 7 February, Shrove Tuesday 9 February and Sunday 14 February 2027.

Carnevale 2027 · 70th edition

Parade days

  1. Sunday Masked parade
  2. Sunday Masked parade
  3. Sunday Masked parade
  4. Shrove Tuesday Masked parade
  5. Sunday · the last Masked parade

The burning of the Testone: [date to be confirmed]. Sunday parades start at 2:30 pm, Shrove Tuesday at 7 pm. The route and prices will be published by the Ente. In bad weather a parade may be postponed: check here in the morning.

On parade day

Good to know

Getting here

Orentano (PI), 56022. Start and finish of the parade: [to be confirmed].

Open Orentano on the map

Parking and tickets

Parking: [to be confirmed]. Entry: [PRICE], children [to be confirmed].

If a child gets lost
  • Before you leave, take a photo of your child, dressed as they are today.
  • Write your phone number on their arm.
  • Meeting point: [to be agreed with the Ente]. Emergencies: 112.
Toilets and first aid

Locations: [to be confirmed].

Seventy editions

From a donkey cart to floats

  1. 1956
    «Ai miei ragazzi — disse l'Arciprete — vedrò di fargli fare due risate!» … «lo fanno a Viareggio e a Rio / e, il Carnevale, voglio farlo anch'io!»

    “For my kids,” said the Archpriest, “I’ll see that they have a laugh!” … “They do it in Viareggio and in Rio / and I want to have a Carnival too!”

    Don Livio Costagli in verses by Aristide Cristiani, «25 anni di Carnevale», 1980, p. 7

  2. 1956
    «Nacque miserello nel 1956, con un carretto trainato dal somaro del Bartoli, colmo di bambini mascherati con le sottane e le cuffie delle nonne.»

    “It was born humble in 1956, with a cart pulled by Bartoli’s donkey, full of children masked in their grandmothers’ skirts and bonnets.”

    «25 anni di Carnevale», 1980, p. 16

  3. 1973

    A society is founded to buy the land for the Capannone, “for building, sheltering and keeping the allegorical floats”.

    «25 anni di Carnevale», 1980, p. 10

  4. 1980
    «i protagonisti del CARNEVALE sono oggi come allora I BAMBINI»

    “the protagonists of the CARNIVAL are, today as then, THE CHILDREN”

    «25 anni di Carnevale», 1980, p. 3

    Illustrated cover of the commemorative issue “25 anni di Carnevale”, Orentano 1980
    The cover of the 1980 commemorative issue, drawn by the painter Alberto Parducci.
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A large allegorical float in a crowd, black and white photograph
A float in the crowd, from the Carnevale archive. [year to be confirmed]
Balloons rising over a square full of children and families
Balloons over the square: the Carnevale today.

Who makes the floats

The Capannone

“Farmers, workers, students and idlers”

The floats are made from “old axles and rubber wheels, wood, papier-mâché and lots of imagination”. After the members’ meeting in early December, work goes on at the Capannone every evening, unpaid, after the day’s work.

«25 anni di Carnevale», 1980, pp. 9, 10, 16

The new mascot

Welcome, Mondino

Our mark come to life: the globe of Orentano with the cone hat and the red nose. He walks, shakes hands and poses for photos with the children.

Drawing of Mondino, the carnival mascot: a blue globe head, a cone hat and a red nose, a red waistcoat with a ruff, waving with open arms