{"id":8377,"date":"2016-12-07T10:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:43:07","slug":"thousand-holiday-lights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/8377\/news\/mille-luci-delle-feste-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A THOUSAND HOLIDAY LIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>PRESS RELEASE (6\/12\/2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, December 7<\/strong> <strong>Loano<\/strong> dresses in lights. At the hours <strong>17.00 <\/strong>the lighting of the big Christmas tree in <strong>Italy Square<\/strong> will kick off the\u2019<strong>artistic lighting of the city<\/strong>, promoted by the\u2019<strong>Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration will involve the pupils of the\u2019<strong>Comprehensive Institute Loano-Boissano<\/strong> who will set up an original Christmas market and the\u2019<strong>Association \u201cU Gunbu de L\u00f6a\u201d <\/strong>who will enliven the afternoon by performing a wide repertoire of traditional Christmas carols.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Christmas season, the <strong>A Thousand Lights of the Holidays<\/strong> They will enhance the city's commercial streets. <strong>Italy Square<\/strong> will be adorned with the sparkling Christmas tree and bright decorations. A <strong>carpet of lights<\/strong> white LEDs will cover the streets of the historic center (Garibaldi, Cavour, Doria and Boragine streets, Massena Square and Rocca Square), enveloping them in a warm festive atmosphere. In the heart of the historic center, a succession of <strong>glowing spheres<\/strong> will mark the route through the maze of caruggi (Ricciardi Street, Rosa Raimodi Street, Rocca Street, Colombo Street). A glittering <strong>arcade of ice <\/strong>will enhance the streets that line the waterfront (Nazzaro and Sauro Streets, Corso Roma, Mazzini Square), Ghilini Street, Palestro Square and Stella Street. While a bright <strong>starry sky <\/strong>Will cover Martyrs Foibe Street and Corso Europa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arches of stars <\/strong>will shine on Genoa Street, Dante Street, Cesarea Street, Gazzi Street, Trento Trieste Street, Pascoli Street and Mount Carmel.<\/p>\n<p>On Via Aurelia, a fountain will be lit in the middle of the fountain at the traffic circle that intersects Via Cesarea with Via dei Gazzi, a <strong>large three-dimensional ball<\/strong> as well as in the other traffic circles will light up <strong>large three-dimensional stars<\/strong>. Verzi will be graced with bright <strong>snowflakes. <\/strong>Finally, the<strong> lights will draw <\/strong>the profile of the\u2019<strong>Oratory of the Blue Chapels <\/strong>and will illuminate the facade of the <strong>St. Mary Immaculate Parish<\/strong>. Sacred images will be projected on the outside of the <strong>St. John the Baptist Parish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0PRESS RELEASE (6\/12\/2016) On Wednesday, December 7, Loano will be dressed in lights. At 5 p.m., the lighting of the big Christmas tree in Italy Square will kick off the city's artistic illumination,...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}