Help! anyone know anything about italy?

Question:

Help! anyone know anything about italy?

what festivals are there in italy?
do you know any good websites where i can find about them?
e.g- name, when, what they do, where abouts...

please!
xx

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The fire of San Antonio - this typically celebrates the purging of the old year and the purification of the new year by fire. Giant bonfires are built depending on the creed of the towns. They are either fed purely Rosemary wood, or they are started inside a hollowed out giant trunk. Some towns feed their fires old, discarded wooden items that the townsfolk have saved throughout the year. Wood gathering begins several days before the bonfire and is considered a joyful activity with everyone joining in. During the bonfire itself, many people run into it's margins and do three spins with the fire under their feet. They believe this purifies them of the sins of the year before and allows them to start the new year with a clean slate. Despite the variety of methods, the fires are huge and plentiful on this night and the celebrations continue into the wee hours until only the embers remain. The older celebrants gather up the embers of the bonfires lit on this night and put them on their own hearths as a good omen and to be blessed by the Saint. This is a holiday of pagan origins and informally begins the season of Carnivale.
Date: January 16th
City: Orosei, Mamoiada, Dorgali and many other smaller cities
Province: NUORO

Fish festival of Saint Fortunato, patron saint of fishermen. This is the most famous event that happens in this drop-dead gorgeous Mediterranean port of Camogli. Free fried fish are dished out in front of the quaint miniature harbor (which is not far from, and is very similar to what Portofino was like before it was discovered by tourists). The odd custom originated during the 2nd World War, when the wives of the local fishermen offered fresh fish to the Holy Virgin because she had protected their husbands from the war. The night before, however, there is a very, very impressive fireworks display that starts around 10:00 PM after which, there is a most amazing competition of bonfires between the two main neighborhoods of the city in which two gigantic wooden and paper structures that are built on the beach following creative, new themes each year (and often reaching two stories high) are torched. Citizens spend the day before filling these structures with unwanted furniture, scrap wood, old doors and anything flammable that they have about the house. The fires are lit by a 'firewire' that descends from the top steeple of the picturesque church which is illuminated in a blaze of electric lights that dazzles the optical senses. The flames seem to lick the sky shooting upwards of 6 stories and requiring the fire department to keep their hoses blasting throughout the night in order to douse wayward flames that many times leap out to threaten observers. This one is worth a detour to see!
Date: 2nd Sunday of May