OLBIA. The tradition of the bride and groom breaking their plate doesn’t please the mayor of Olbia Seventh Nizzi because he considers it a dangerous practice. For this reason, in fact, from today anyone who wants to break a plate, usually with rice, wheat, flowers and some coins, auspicious and propitiatory for couples getting married, risks a fine of up to 500 euros. That secular ritual of the plate that mothers and grandmothers usually break at the feet of the bride and groom, not necessarily in front of the town hall or the churches, but also when leaving the house, could hurt someone and, moreover, would dirty the street or the churchyard of the buildings of worship . And therefore, concerned above all for public health, Nizzi signed an ordinance valid “throughout the municipal territory, to protect the physical integrity of people and urban decorum, the ban on breaking dishes during the performance of wedding functions” . Below is the device which, in fact, interrupts a centuries-old tradition in Olbia. Whoever wants to carry it forward, therefore, just has to get married in another municipality or in a church… outside the municipality!
