Participants throw oranges at rival teams during an annual Carnival battle in the northern Italian town of Ivrea...
...The battle, which every year turns the small town into a mass of fruit-flinging madness, commemorates a local revolt when a medieval count tried to exercise his right to sleep with a newly wedded girl on her wedding night.
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I have been to Italy, several times, and oh, how I would love an Italian orange right now!
