Calendimaggio in Assisi: Lady Spring Will Reign

Madonna Primavera – Lady Spring – will reign in glory over Assisi’s early May festival, Calendimaggio. On April 30th, five damigelle (damsels) from “Upper” Assisi, La Nobilissima Parte di Sopra (“The Most Noble Part of Upper Assisi”) in elegant medieval dress pastels and bearing bouquets of spring flowers paraded slowly, elegantly into a small piazza near…