Viva la Befana - Lavolio Boutique Confectionery

The Christmas holidays in Italy end on January 6, with the Epiphany. To make the end of the holidays less melancholy, the Befana comes to the rescue. Who’s the Befana? The Befana is a folkloric figure linked to the Christmas holidays, typical of some Italian regions and then spread throughout the peninsula, less known in the rest of the world. The Befana is represented as an old lady, with a hump and hooked nose. She travels on a broom, she is dressed in rags and dirty with soot, because when she can, she enters the houses through the chimney. The night between 5 and 6 January she leaves gifts and sweets to the children who have been good, while to those who have been less good she leaves pieces of coal (actually sugar with the appearance of cardboard!).  The Befana is

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