Tonight is San Lorenzo night – when Italians look at the stars
Category: Culture, Curiosities, Italy, Tradition

Tonight is San Lorenzo night – the night of the shooting stars.
Tonight put away your smartphone, tablet, computer and look uo to the stars. August 10th is the night where your chances of seeing shooting stars are extremely high. And this year 2015 even higher according to the experts.
Italians gather on San Lorenzo together to see this natural wonder . And to express their secret wishes.
Scientifically speaking we don’t actually see stars, but small pieces of a comet. At this time of the year the earth passses close to a cloud of these comet pieces.
So go out tonight and look up !
And if the sky is clouded to night, don’t worry. The chance of seeing shooting stars remains high until thursday.