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Danes in Apricale
Danes
visiting Apricale
Apricale has an appreciable foreign
community, with lots of Germans and British, but perhaps the
first group of non-Italians to discover Apricale in our times
was the Danes.
September 1965 saw the
first visit to Apricale by a group of visitors from Sanremo’s
twin town, Helsingør, in Denmark. The
Marquis Guido Borea d’Olmo, Danish vice consul in San Remo, was
responsible arranging the visit of 9 buses and 350 Danes, who
came to join in the Sagra delle Pansarole. The people of
Apricale, dressed in traditional costume and waving Danish flags
and banners with “Welcome to Apricale” written in Danish, lined
the carrugi for the last part of the journey. The Danes were
warmly welcomed to the village, where they were offered food,
drinks, and of course pansarole, by the Apricalese. The village
band played, speeches were held, and afterwards everyone drove
to the nearby ‘Lago Bin’ restaurant for lunch.
A
second visit took place in October 1981.The Mayor of Apricale,
Adriano Garraccione, welcomed 120 guests from Helsingør to the
Piazza V Emanuelle II, again for the pansarole (the Danes spoke
about being impressed by the huge pan, used to make the
pansarole). All the ladies were given bouquets of red roses and
white bridal veils – the colours of the Danish flag. Afterwards,
the village offered its guests some excellent wine to accompany
their lunch, while the Helsingør town orchestra played to the
delight of both the Danes and Italians. As the afternoon
blossomed, a hastily formed group of local musicians played and
sang Italian songs. |
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