Carnevale di Palma Campania

‘A Livella

Year of foundation 1996

Good evening everyone.

I am Luigi Giuliano, one of the founding members of the association group a level for having put in 2025 the historic quadrille group ‘a level presents itself, as already mentioned, Welcome to the palace.

This year we will invite the public to take an unforgettable journey inside a royal residence.

Crossing the majestic gates they will immediately find themselves immersed in a large enchanted garden.

Once they pass the entrance to the palace, a world of luxury and magnificence opens up before them, decorated with impressive frescoes, precious curtains, family portraits and much more.

In short, every corner of our building will be an opportunity to amaze and experience a carnival full of elegance and mystery.

Finally, I wish a big wish, good luck to all the groups.

We know the Quadrille

The History

In 1996 a new committee was born “ ‘A Livella ” which was presented to the public the following year with the theme “From the Andes… to underwear” with maestro Antonio Pesce.

The singular aspect of this group was certainly the young age of the founding committee. These were boys in their early twenties: some had served for a few years in the Gli Studenti others don't I Gaudenti, but in the end the desire for autonomy had prevailed. It was a difficult and courageous choice to start a new quadrille, because this decision would necessarily have entailed considerable financial availability.

Therefore, the boys established a calendar of initiatives that would guarantee the sum necessary to begin preparations through soccer tournaments, trips and parties.

This year the new committee brought an absolute novelty to the Rape of the Pennant event.

He distributed to the quadrille participants a colored hat in the shape of a bowler hat like that of Totò, who inspired the quadrille.

It was a note of color that the Palmesi people really liked. Until then the quadrilles had only paraded with a rosette and a sprig of mimosa attached to the neck of the dress. In the year following '97 and until 2000, the committee made up mainly of young university students to find economic resources and keep the quadrille alive became the protagonist of some initiatives by organizing the five-a-side football tournament in memory of our dear friend and fellow citizen “memorial Biagio Sorrentino”.

Another event that was enormously successful in terms of attendance, fun and conviviality for the youth of Palma was the New Year's Eve party, which thus became a fixed event of the quadrille.

Even today the association is actively involved in organizing social events and with creativity and passion contributes to making the Palma Campania carnival an extraordinary event.

Chronology of themes and masters:
1997: Tema: “Civiltà Incas dalle Ande alle mutande”- Maestro: Antonio Pesce
1998: Tema “Gli Urz in URSS” – Maestro: Luigi Giugliano
1999: Tema: “A livella nell’al di là cchiù a llà che a ccà” – Maestro: Francesco Nappi
2000: Tema. “ Hooywood” – Maestro: Domenico Nappi
2001: Tema: “Fate e gnomi” – Maestro: Filippo Federici
2002: Tema: “Paesi Bassi” – Maestro: Andrea Vuolo
2003:Tema: “Il mondo celtico” – Maestro: Pietro Isernia
2004: Tema: “La Giamaica” – Maestro: Agostino Finetti
2005: January and February: carnival events are canceled due to the devastating and disastrous earthquake in South-East Asia (TSU-NAMI)
2006:
Tema: “Uomini del ghiaccio” – Maestro: Domenico Nappi
2007:  La quadriglia non partecia all’edizione
2008: Tema: “Australia”- Maestro: Nicola Alfano
2009: Tema: “Brasile” – Maestro: Biagio Rubinacci
2010: Tema: “Priscilla” – Maestro: Antonio Carrella
2011: Tema: “Super Mario Bros” – Maestro: Giuseppe Pizza
2012: Tema “Facite spazio arriva ‘a Livella” – Maestra: Susy Falco
2013: Tema: “A Livella impazza in piazza” – Maestro: Gianvincenzo Simonetti
2014: Tema: “Monopoly” – Maestro: Antonio Simonetti
2015: Tema: “Il caffè”- Maestra: Concetta Caffo
2016:  La quadriglia non partecia all’edizione
2017: Tema: “Vide ‘o mare quanto è bello” – Maestro: Giuseppe Pizza
2018: Tema: “Incantati dal bosco” – Maestro: Aniello Rainone
2019: Tema: “Toy story” – Maestra: Susy Falco
2020: Tema: “A Russia sta ccà ma ‘o zar addo sta?” – Maestro: Pasquale Rubinacci
2021/ 2022: events suspended due to Covid-19 pandemic
2023: Tema: “‘A Livella prende il volo” – Maestro: Raffaele D’Amico
2024: Tema: “Livell’art”- Maestro: Antonio Grasso