Pizzica (Italian: [ˈpitt͡sika]) is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula, in Apulia, and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
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Pizzica (Italian: [ˈpitt͡sika]) is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula, in Apulia, and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
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Pizzica (Italian: [ˈpitt͡sika]) is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula, in Apulia, and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
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Pizzica (Italian: [ˈpitt͡sika]) is a popular Italian folk dance, originally from the Salento peninsula, in Apulia, and later spreading throughout the rest of Apulia and the regions of Calabria and eastern Basilicata.
It is part of the larger family of tarantella.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pizzica”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
pizzica is Italian tarantella folk dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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