Festa de l'UnitÃ
As Festa de l' Unità, nowadays usually Festa de l' Unità ( Feast of the unit ), which in many Italian communities of the Italian Communist Party (PCI ) and its successor parties organized festivals are called, originally held in favor of the party newspaper L' Unità were. There are local, regional, thematic, but also national festivals that name.
As the successful model since the 1930 Fête de l' Humanité served in France. The original purpose of the press festival was the financing of the party newspaper L' Unità. The first of these festivals took place in 1945 in the municipalities of Mariano Comense and Lentate sul Seveso instead. Over time, this type of event to a major source of financing of the party, especially at the local level was.
As part of the Partito Democratico today a Festa Democrática is provided. At the provincial level lives in part of the old name still continues.