Green travel ideas and special offers for the Women's Day
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A holiday that is not loved by all women, the anniversary of March 8 can be an occasion for a trip out of town, perhaps with your girlfriends, to discover a nature that is preparing itself to the arrival of spring.
Among the many legends about the origin of International Women's Day, the most common is the one that dates back to the commemoration of the female workers who died on 25 March 1911, in the fire of the factory in New York where they worked in terrible conditions.
Others link the celebration to a strike of textile women workers, brutally repressed, in New York, on March 8, 1857, and others in a peaceful protest of some female workers of Petersburg in 1917.
What is certain is that, in 1909 in the United States, the first official day of the women was celebrated. In 1977, the UN officially establish the Day for women's rights and world peace.
Thus, throughout the world, March 8 becomes an opportunity to remember all the battles fought and won, or still to be won against the exploitation of women.
Take some time and find out how the places near you can be surprising; plan a bike ride with your girlfriends, and see that even cities like Milan, for example, hide their green side. There is no need to go far away to start traveling!
What do you think about Women's Day? How are you going to spend it?