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Ivrea, Italy – The Battle of the Oranges

Italy World Places March 2014 31 photos

Two editions of the historic carnival of Ivrea, the Mugnaia of 2008 and of 2014, and its famous Battle of the Oranges. Read more on Wikipedia: Battle of the Oranges.

Crowd under umbrellas in a rainy street hung with bannersOrange throwers in red caps on a painted cart with a knightTeam in blue and white striped shirts on a rainy cartRed and green banners and a net-wrapped cart above a crowdTwo horses pulling a cart down a cobbled streetMasked throwers in leather armour holding oranges on a cartMasked orange throwers in armour and helmets lined up along a cartHorse team with white plumes among spectators on an orange-strewn streetCrowd at a bridge beneath flags with the nets-covered street beyondArmoured throwers on a cart hurling oranges at the crowd belowOrange throwers on a cart seen over the heads of spectatorsMan selecting oranges from stacked crates behind protective netsOrange perched on top of an orange umbrella in the drizzleTeam members in green and red jackets resting by wooden cratesCrowd in red caps on a street with a snowy mountain behindDense crowd of red caps and flags under a cloudy mountain skyBasketball hoop held up by a man in a red capTeam in green and red jerseys gathered in a flag-hung streetCrowd of red caps crossing a square, a bell tower beyondMasked throwers on a cart seen through a wooden frame, oranges flyingMuddy ground strewn with orange peel between several pairs of shoesCobblestone street littered with crushed oranges beside a gutterCrowd in a street hung with green and red flags and balloonsLarge orange sculpture held in stone hands above the crowdMan in white face paint with red and black diamondsCrowd of red caps in front of a palazzo with red bannersArmoured throwers on a cart throw oranges past balconies with team crestsHorse-drawn carriage with white plumes below a chessboard bannerTerraced yellow and white modernist housing behind bare branches and a lampOrange throwers on a cart below a brick tower and flagYellow and red pennants reading 1974 before a stone bell tower
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