Italy: Carnival celebration in Scampia by Fabio Sasso
The carnival in Scampia in the outskirts of Naples
Two thousand people, jugglers, acrobats and social commitment. And 'the thirty-fifth edition of the carnival Gridas in Scampia.
"A unique carnival, which grows every year and that is the proof that this territory is alive, which is able to bring together associations and committees that come from all over the region." Says the mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, this morning in Scampia.
This year's theme of the carnival is Scampia "balances between Acrobats and Balancing acts, to pay homage to the fervent cultural production blamed areas as degraded and hopeless it may instead help to redeem telling in their entirety, without stereotypes, simplifications, or labels" .
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