Corpus Domini, celebrated nine weeks after Easter (June 26 in 2011), is a time when you’re likely to find folks in Italy spreading flowers into intricate patterns on the streets and walkways of their villages. There are particular hotbeds of this festival, and one nexus certainly is the Ligurian town of Brugnato, where we made our video of the Infiorata del Corpus Domini.
The colors are dizzying as you dance around the flowered paths meant to be obliterated by the faithful as they exit church, a sign that man-made beauty isn’t everlasting.
Brugnato is a pleasant town to visit, and there are some decently marked trails in the vicinity. Mike Mazzaschi of A Path to Lunch sends along his detailed post on a walk that takes you near Brugnato if you happen to be in the area. see: Mangia to Cornice, Lower Val di Vara