| Hello everyone, welcome back to ItalianPod101.com. |
| My name is Desy. |
| Mi chiamo Desy. |
| Mi chiamo Desy. |
| And in this video, we're going to talk about what happens in September in Italy. |
| Settembre in Italia. |
| Settembre in Italia. |
| I know this is a tricky one because sette means seven in Italian, so I know this makes |
| you think of July, but actually it's September, so the ninth month of the year. |
| September in Italy is still quite warm, actually, and a lot of people still take vacations and |
| have their first holidays, actually, sometimes, because as I told you in many other occasions |
| there is either companies closing for the whole month of August or you can choose or |
| actually try and trade your days with your colleagues in order to have the vacation period |
| that you prefer. |
| So some people go in June, some in July, and some in September. |
| The thing is that it's the first two weeks of September that it's still pretty crowded |
| everywhere because then, in the middle of September, everyone goes back to school. |
| Si torna a scuola. |
| Back to school. |
| Si torna a scuola. |
| Basically the 15, but it depends on the year, of course, but the third week of September |
| is when everyone goes back to school, not universities, actually, because university |
| starts again in October, Ottobre, Ottobre, but for the rest, yes. |
| So families still go around in the first two weeks of September, which are low season, |
| so it's going to be cheaper, also not super hot, but still warm enough. |
| I mean you can go into the sea, for example. |
| So there's still a bit of vacanze, holidays, vacanze, especially al mare, al mare, at the |
| sea, but also montagna, montagna, mountains, and in particular cities, le città, città |
| d'arte, cities of arts, because then it's easier to go around because it's not super |
| hot. |
| Actually, it may not be the best time for everyone to go on vacation because some students |
| do have debts to collect, if that makes sense. |
| We call it debiti, debiti da recuperare, debiti da recuperare. |
| So if you didn't actually fail, but you weren't the best in some subjects, I think it has |
| to be 2 or 3 maximum, then we say, okay, you go to the next year, but in September, before |
| starting the new year, you show me that you did actually learn what you were missing. |
| And that's why we call it debito, debt. |
| And this is one reason that adds, actually, to the others for visiting and traveling in |
| early September, because it's not too hot, but it's not cold yet, there's not too many |
| people around. |
| Students do have to be at school and it's cheaper than the rest of summer. |
| Another reason to go around in September is that it's full of festivals and sagre. |
| Festivals and sagre, it's more like fairs, meaning that it's more historical and typical |
| of some specific places, okay. |
| For example, you can see a lot of traditional things in this month. |
| There is La Regata Storica di Venezia. |
| The first Sunday of September, there's this historical race of Venice, which is, of course, |
| with gondole and gondolini, which is smaller gondole, while gondolieri is the people that |
| rides the boats. |
| And here you can see gondole decorated adobate a festa, so decorated for the party. |
| Another event worth mentioning is La partita di scacchi viventi, so living chess play, |
| this one too in Veneto, but it only happens the second week of September of old years. |
| So something really rare, actually. |
| There's also a lot going on with food in that month, in September, because this is a good |
| month since I mentioned it's not too hot or too warm to have people going around, but |
| also not food actually rotten, like if you keep it out too much to show people. |
| In September it's okayish, but people are still willing to go out to experience things. |
| It's not too cold and they just want to be inside, so it's the perfect time. |
| In fact, you can find the real famous Sagra del Peperone in Piemonte. |
| In Carmagnola it's the sweet pepper festival. |
| You can find it giallo, yellow, rosso, red, green, verde or arancione, orange as well, |
| and all the dishes made with them, actually. |
| In Lombardia, so around Milan, you can find la festa del gorgonzola cheese festival. |
| I wonder about the smell, yeah, I've never been there. |
| Going more to the south in Caserta, next to Naples, you can find la festa del fungo porcino, |
| so porcino mushroom festival, and also going southern and southern in Calabria, a diamante |
| location, which is diamond, literally. |
| In Calabria you can find the hot chili festival, and they also have a contest with challenges, |
| trying to see who's the one who can eat more without dying, basically. |
| And that's called peperoncino, peperoncino, that's hot chili, hot pepper. |
| It's super red and I know that a lot of people take it just also as a lucky charm for their |
| good luck, even if you don't eat it. |
| Just take it. |
| Don't eat it if you're not a fan. |
| I know that they're really, really spicy. |
| That being said, I hope that I gave you enough hints to enjoy Settembre, September in Italy, |
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| Thank you for watching. |
| I'll see you soon. |
| Bye-bye. |
| Ciao, ciao. |
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