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Chinese lanterns illuminate Italian theme park for holiday season

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STORY: Chinese lanterns illuminate Italian theme park for holiday season
SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 28, 2024
DATELINE: Jan. 29, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:31
LOCATION: CASSINO, Italy
CATEGORY: CULTURE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the International Lantern Festival "Lanternia"
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): VINCENZO, Performer of Lanternia
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Italian): MATTEO, Visitor
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): TERESA, Visitor
5. various of the International Lantern Festival "Lanternia"
6. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): DOMENICO DURANTE, Director of Lanternia

STORYLINE:

The International Lantern Festival "Lanternia" opened on Dec. 8, 2023 is located at the Il Bosco delle Favole (Fairytale Forest) theme park in Cassino, an hour and a half drive away from the capital Rome.
   
Divided into six areas and featuring Christmas, fairytale, animal and animation themes, this large-scale lantern exhibition covers some 110,000 square meters with thousands of giant Chinese lanterns.
   
SOUNDBITE 1 (English): VINCENZO, Performer of Lanternia
"All the lanterns are made from China and China chooses our park to explain to all the people in the world how lanterns are made. So the creation, the magic let all the people see and visit it."

SOUNDBITE 2 (Italian): MATTEO, Visitor
"We choose to be there because we knew the lanterns were made by Chinese."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): TERESA, Visitor
"The most beautiful one is the Alice's wonderland. It is a beautiful one. I don't know why, maybe because of its subject, the light, the color. It's my favorite one."

The exhibition, which will run until March 10, received more than 2,000 visitors on Sunday, the opening day of Carnival, a traditional Italian holiday.

SOUNDBITE 4 (English): DOMENICO DURANTE, Director of Lanternia
"The materials of lantern are very easy material. We have the fabrics and the iron and the whole materials coming from China. We have the collaboration of a Chinese team."

These lanterns are made of silk, an eco-friendly material that is lightweight, non-polluting and resilient, and illuminated with the latest low-power LEDs.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Cassino, Italy.
(XHTV)

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