La passeggiata della domenica

In Italy there exists a tradition simple but important: the stroll. It is not is sport and not serves to arrive from some place. One walks slowly, in order to the pleasure of walking and of seeing the people. It is a way of being together.

The Sunday afternoon is the moment classic. The families go out together, dressed well. The grandparents hold by the hand the grandchildren, the parents talk with the friends met on the street. Everyone each other greet and themselves stop to chat for a few minutes.

In the small towns the stroll itself is done on the main street principal. People people walks forward and back on the same street. In the city instead one goes to a square or in a a park. Many once the young people each other used to meet like that. Even the grandparents of today have met the their husbands and the their wives during the stroll.

In summer one goes out more late, when the sun not burns anymore. At times one buys a gelato and one continues to walk until the sunset. In winter the stroll is shorter short, but not disappears. There oneself covers well and one goes out the same.

Today many young people prefer the phone or the sofa, but the stroll not is dead. In every town Italian toward the six in the evening one see still people who walk slowly, without a real reason. And perhaps is exactly this the reason: to feel that have time.