Corso

The corso , or frequently corso flowered , is a Défilé of tanks being held in the street during local festivals of outdoor.

This name of Italian origin means, in Italian, “street”, sometimes “public walk”. The corso, as its etymological definition testifies some, is in the beginning an occasion to celebrate together, in outside, an significant event. This one, very often, coincides with the arrival of spring, just like that of the period of the Carnaval, which remains attached at the end of the winter, around the Fatty Tuesday. For more than one hundred years, for some corsos, several generations have been transmitted this know-how, this desire for creating each year something again.

At the end of the 19th century, the corsos were especially made up of carts or all other vehicles decorated with branches and some flowers. The participants were very often grimés as for Fatty Tuesday, or one said rather “dented”. Equipped in a whimsical way, they aimed to create sensation, to make fun of people in a humorous way, to attract the eye of the spectator, to give him desire for taking part in the popular jubilation, with the sound of local musics.

These tanks in the beginning were drawn by horses, sometimes of the oxen, whose tradition of the festivals of herdsmen is still very present in the Drome. At that time, these processions of tanks were called cavalcades, because drawn by horses, in general. It is about the middle of the 20th century that the word “corso appears”. After the war of 1914-1918, some cars, sometimes small trucks, are decorated and mix with the traditional tanks. After the Second world war, it is the appearance of the first tractors. The means of transport change little by little, but the tradition of manufacture of the tanks remains the same one or almost: subjects created and flowered by associations, districts.

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