CARNIVAL "Landzette". In the Combe-Froide; valley of the Great Saint Bernardo who connects the city of Aosta with Switzerland; in the carnival days is carried out various masked. The Landzette are the true protagonists of the carnival: with the most colorful masks and garments; inspired to the uniforms military but covered of mirrors and tapes multicolors; they express to contempo the elegance and aggressiveness. Their action in fact is characterized by provocative assaults regarding who he is stranger to the ritual; today reorganized in the limits of the good marked taste but a time from a behavior at the best of the violence. In hand they hold a horse tail in order to stimulate the spectators. Photography of Elena Piccini; 2000.