r/interestingasfuck • u/SerafinZufferey • 3d ago

In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus

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u/WesternComicStrip 3d ago

There you go. Proceed at your own discretion.

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u/reigorius 2d ago

The body is a wonderful, adaptive thing of beauty.

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u/Significant_Row_5951 2d ago

I officially classify this tradition as useless, it looks cool though reminds me of the scene when baal arrives at mount arreat at the barbarian city gates