Seasonal Closings, Festivals, and Holidays
Accidentally booked a trip with your grandma to Brazil, only to be greeted by half-naked ladies and drunken revelers? You should have checked this year's Carnival dates. Didn't realize that much of Italy shuts down over the Easter holiday? It's important to know about seasonal closings, holidays, and festivals in your destination before you book your trip.
In some places, restaurants and tourist sites operate on shorter schedules or even close completely during the winter months (and also in August, due to workers' vacations). Be sure to do your research before booking your travel or risk being met with a ghost town upon arrival.
And while it can be great fun to partake in holiday celebrations and festivals in a different country, you should expect the logistics of travel to be a bit more difficult, the crowds to be bigger, and many local businesses to be closed. So before you set the dates for your spring trip to Italy, decide whether seeing Florence's Easter Sunday Scoppio del Carro ("Explosion of the Cart") celebration—involving a wooden cart, fireworks, and a blazing mechanical-dove rocket—is worth the public-holiday hassle.
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