{"id":9359,"date":"2016-05-12T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2016-05-11T22:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T22:03:38","slug":"9359","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/12\/9359\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful crowds at La Corsa dei Ceri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Corsa or Festa dei Ceri is an ancient feast day held every 15th of May in Umbria, Italy in which three giant candles are carried through town and participants wear yellow, blue and black to honour the saints.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/preview\/746-11405\/crowd-piazza-del-comune-la-corsa-dei-ceri\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.robertharding.com\/preview\/RM\/RH\/HORIZONTAL\/746-11405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowd in Piazza del Comune, La Corsa dei Ceri feast on 15th of May, Gubbio, Umbria, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertharding.com\/?lang=en&amp;page=search&amp;s=umbria&amp;smode=0&amp;license=2&amp;zoom=1&amp;display=5&amp;sortby=0&amp;bgcolour=white&amp;orientation%5B%5D=0&amp;orientation%5B%5D=1&amp;orientation%5B%5D=2&amp;orientation%5B%5D=3\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos of\u00a0Umbria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corsa or Festa dei Ceri is an ancient feast day held every 15th of May in Umbria, Italy in which three giant candles are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1187,1202],"tags":[1337,377,544,1335,1078,1336],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-events","category-featured","tag-feast","tag-festivals","tag-italy","tag-la-corsa-dei-ceri","tag-travel-photography","tag-umbria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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