Summer time in Tuscany is sun, sunflowers, grapes, wine,
good food and a relaxed environment so you can feel stress disappear. People
watching become your hobby along chatting with the guys at your local “Alementari”.
You enjoy the different festivals that appear local, either it
is food festivals or it is Historic Festivals, Charity events or local marked.
We popped into two of these during this summer in
Montecarlo. Middle of June it was the charity “Cena della Misericordia”. The whole
main street Via Roma was covered with a long table from one end to the other.
Locals along with tourist sitting down pay 15 Euro for a 4 course meal with
local wine. All supported by local business in Montecarlo. The chat went lively
among them, and as more wine the better the tourist were speaking Italian.
It was a fantastic evening and look forward to the same
event next year.
A few weeks later Montecarlo celebrated its founder Carl VI.
Montecarlo can celebrate 700 years so the festival with old costumes and
artistic presentation during the last weekend in June.
If this will be a yearly happening is too early to say, but
it was fun to see the involvement of the community.
We are lucky to become “Montecarlese”. Montecarlo is located very central to larger
cities ac Florence, Pisa and Lucca in addition you will find in each smaller
city in Tuscany that they celebrate in the same way as in Montecarlo or Lucca.
Just drop in, look for the posters to see what is happening and it does, more
or less all year round.
