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  • Giovedì 21 marzo 2013

Le foto del Nowruz

In un sacco di posti del mondo in questi giorni si festeggia il Capodanno persiano, che coincide con l'inizio della primavera

Iranian Haji Firuz, Mehdi Arab, 19, from the northern town of Sari in Mazandaran province poses in a dancing gesture for a portrait in a street in northern Tehran on March 17, 2013. Haji Firuz is the traditional herald of Noruz, the Persian new year, who covers his face in soot or paints it in black, wears bright red clothes and sings in the streets with a tambourine. Most of the people disguised as Haji Firuz are seasonal workers or unemployed men from poor families who leave their small towns during the last days of the Persian year to sing and dance in the big cities to earn money. Noruz is the new year according to the Persian solar calendar and is a Zoroastrian tradition, still celebrated by Iranians even after Islam. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Iranian Haji Firuz, Mehdi Arab, 19, from the northern town of Sari in Mazandaran province poses in a dancing gesture for a portrait in a street in northern Tehran on March 17, 2013. Haji Firuz is the traditional herald of Noruz, the Persian new year, who covers his face in soot or paints it in black, wears bright red clothes and sings in the streets with a tambourine. Most of the people disguised as Haji Firuz are seasonal workers or unemployed men from poor families who leave their small towns during the last days of the Persian year to sing and dance in the big cities to earn money. Noruz is the new year according to the Persian solar calendar and is a Zoroastrian tradition, still celebrated by Iranians even after Islam. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

In molte parti del mondo in questi giorni si festeggia il Nowruz, ovvero il Capodanno persiano, una ricorrenza che coincide ogni anno con l’equinozio di primavera – viene festeggiato tra il 20 e il 22 marzo, a seconda del paese – e tradizionalmente onora la rinascita della natura. Il termine Nowruz deriva dall’unione di due parole: nell’antico fārsī, la lingua persiana, no significava “nuovo” e rōz “giorno” e la festività viene celebrata principalmente in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaigian, India, Kirghizistan, Tagikistan, Pakistan, Turchia e Uzbekistan, ovvero da tutti i popoli e le culture che un tempo facevano parte dell’impero persiano. La festa è molto sentita soprattutto dai curdi e viene considerata un importante momento di unità nazionale. Nel febbraio 2010 l’UNESCO ha riconosciuto il 21 marzo Giornata Internazionale del Nowruz, come “patrimonio culturale immateriale dell’umanità”.

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