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by PrimeItaly.com - The central Piazza del Popolo, plays a major role for the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Rome.

The square will host traditional fireworks, rock and classical music concerts lasting well into the night.
And for the children a celebration with clowns, acrobats, fire-eaters and many other attractions takes place in this square the day following.

For those who love to celebrate the New Year dancing, among the night venues the capital offers, the Piper Club is an option to be considered.

by PrimeItaly.com -Rimini, major center for the night’s entairtenment, offers the usual wide choice of discoteques to those who love spend the New Year’s eve dancing. But that’s not all.

The Riviera Romagnola’s capital, welcomes the New Year with three days of entertainment in Piazzale Fellini.

Beginning 30 December, the city offers many events to celebrate the New Year, including jazz concerts, live opera and theatre performances, a market, art exhibitions and skating shows

Where: Rimini - Adriatic Coast of Romagna (see on the map).

Night ski torchlight processions represent a common tradition in the celebrations of the New Year in the alpine areas.
The resort of Courmayeur in Val d’Aosta, on December 30, hosts a large-scale torchlight procession - the traditional “Fiaccolata“.

Skiers with headlamps make a light snake winding down along the snow-covered slopes. Fireworks in the town of Courmayeur complete the night.

However in these alpine areas, skiing guided by the full moon, is a common activity to accompany the New Year’s Eve dinners.

Where: Courmayeur - Valle d’Aosta, (see on the map).

Umbria Jazz Winter, the sister event of the summer jazz festival held in Perugia in July, is taking place in Orvieto from December 28, 2006 through January 1, 2007.

For five days, throughout the day and night, the hilltop town of Orvieto wil offer concerts, jazz lunches, dinners and many cultural events.

Among the key events: the twice-a-day marching parade featuring Funk Off, New Year’s Eve special dinners and the New Year’s Day Mass with gospel singers held in the Orvieto Cathedral. Details are available on the Umbria Jazz Website

Where: Orvieto - Umbria (see on the map).
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The medieval cities of Umbria, in this time welcome visitors with the full flavour of the Christmas season.

Perugia, Assisi, Todi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Gubbio with Christmas trees, markets, and Nativity Scenes, offer more than a chance to experience a Christmas of the past.

But there something more than the well-known art cities to visit.
A countless number of Living Nativity Scenes taking place in many small towns and villages accross the region.
Villagers dress up in period clothes and enact crafts, markets, taverns and scenes from the Nativity during the Christmas holidays.