Columbus Day.

Hi guys!
Today  I want to write about 'Columbus Day'.
Nowadays 'Columbus Day' is celebrated in America on October 12th.
The story starts when Christpher Columbus,an Italian explorer and navigator,
decided to prove that the Earth was round but he didn't want to travel to East becasuse he thought it was more dangerous so he conviced Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Aragon to reach the East Indies by sailing West,so he arrived in a new land.
He thought that he had reached the Indies but he had discovered a whole new country.
That's why America takes its name from another exoplorer Amerigo Vespucci.
At first peple celebrated this holiday unofficially but in 1892 on Columbus Day 400th anniversary,
president Benjamin Harrison made it an official event.
Every year people in America celebrate this day expecially in New York.
New Yorkers and people from all around the world take part to a parade on Fifth Avenue.
So,today this is the most largest celebration of Italian-American culture.

That's all for today,below there are some pictures took in New York.
See you soon!
Kisses,Paola.