Summer was a season characterized by hard country working, a time when the fruits of own work were estimated and reckoned up. Most of the peasant feasts take place during this magic time, when the nature is dazzling and life breaks out in every thinkable possibility. In Perugia, one of the more important feast of the summer, but not only, was the Ring Feast, a very ancient spectacle. The city was invaded by crowding peregrines keen to honour the Ring with which it was widespread belief Virgin Mary get married. Now the ring is preserved in a shrine inside the Duomo. Another very appreciated feast in the city was the Feast of Monteluce, during which different market stalls were organized to sell lupines, seeds, carobs but mainly basil which was considered a beneficial and auspicious plant.

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