The new Year. The puppet fire. New Year's sweets

A custom on New Year's Eve that became established in the 1960s and has survived to the present day is the burning of the puppet, a straw puppet that represents the past year. Before the puppet, the new year was solemnized with some fochəra, i.e. some bonfires. In recent years a puppet is no longer made, but a pyre of old wood is set on fire in Piazza del Commercio. Also characteristic is the firing of fireworks at the stroke of midnight.
No large lunches or dinners were prepared on New Year's Eve; usually lunch was similar to that of Sunday, with the particularity that various sweets were present on the table. Usually the calcionetti (li cagginittə), typical of the Christmas period, the sponge cake, the tarts and the donut were consumed.