During the month of August, precisely on August 16th, the particular Pantasema dance festival takes place in Vallepietra.
People dance in the square next to a large bonfire waiting for midnight when a large female-shaped puppet arrives that seems to dance before being engulfed in flames.
In peasant tradition, fire always has a purifying message and August was the month intended for the celebrations of the annual harvest and a good omen for the following one.
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