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XXX
THE FESTA DI SANT’ANTONIO
The festa di Sant’Antonio was the greatest
day in the year for Anacapri. For weeks
the little village had been all astir for the solemn
commemoration of our Patron Saint. The streets
had been cleaned, the houses where the
procession had to pass had been whitewashed, the
church decorated with red silk hangings and
tapestries, the fireworks ordered from Naples,
the band, most important of all, hired from
Torre Annunziata. The series of festivals opened
with the arrival of the band on the eve of the
great day. Half across the bay the band had
already to begin to blow all they were worth,
far too far away to be heard by us in Anacapri
but near enough with favourable wind to irritate
the ears of the Capresi in the hated village below.
On landing at the Marina the band and their
gigantic instruments were packed in two big
carts and taken as far as the carriage road was
finished. The rest of the way they had to climb
in loose formation up the steep Phœnician steps,
blowing incessantly. Under the wall of San
Michele they were received by a deputation from
the Municipio. The magnificent bandmaster in
his gorgeous uniform all covered with gold lace
à la Murat raised his baton and, preceded by the
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