In 2001 the School Year Abroad program founded a program for high school students in Viterbo, and the program is now in its fourth year. The program places students in host families in the surronding areas and has a school in the center of the city.
The “Macchina di Santa Rosa”
The transport of the Macchina di S. Rosa takes place every year, on September 3, at 9 o’clock in the evening. The Macchina is an artistic illuminated bell-tower with an imposing height of 30 m. It weighs between 3.5 and 5 tonnes and is made of iron, wood and papier-mch. At the top of the tower, the statue of the Patron Saint is enthusiastically acclaimed by the people in the streets of the town centre, where lights are turned off for the occasion. One hundred Viterbesi men (known as the Facchini) carry the Macchina from Porta Romana through the major streets of Viterbo, concluding with a strenuous ascension up to the Piazza di Santa Rosa, its final resting place. Each Macchina has a life span of five years, after which a new one is built.
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