Summer
night in Montefoscoli
Montefoscoli is
a little village, the village where I live, and each year there is a festival.
Every year the
topic of this festival changes, this is year the theme is “Live in Montefoscoli
in the year 1900”
The inhabitants
of Montefoscoli wear strange costumes and hairstyles, the women wear a long
brown skirt and brown shirt, their hair is gathered in a chignon.
The men instead
wear brown trousers and plaid shirts.
The whole
village is festooned with bales of hay and olive tree branches and around Montefoscoli you can
feel the atmosphere of the early 20th century.
This year the
festival was held on 20th of August, but every year the date changes.
During the day
there were performances, the inhabitants marched through Montefoscoli.
In the evening
there was a dinner around the village, you could eat at very peculiar tables, bales of hay
transformed in table and chair .. It was a fantastic idea! The people who came
to eat found this thing amazing!
You could taste classic Tuscan foods, like “zuppa”(cabbage soup), “trippa” (tripe) “tortellini alla montefoscolese” (tortellini
with cream and tomatoes), “lasagne”, grilled bread and grilled meat; and
delicious desserts like “tiramisu” (cocoa powder mascarpone, Italian cheese, and
Pavesini buiscuits), “torta della nonna” (grandma's cake, with cream and pine-kernels).
After the dinner in the upper part of Montefoscoli some
guys played the guitar and sang, instead
in the lower part of the village some girls danced.
All those who went to Montefoscoli this day were happy, because by now no one
organises this kind of festival any more!
Asia Giuliotti
