The last day of the Festival
The vertical arch at Tocatì (Marchiori)
Street play takes time back two years. The full squares, children lined up to try their hand at playful curiosities never seen before, the music, the races and a lot of smiles.
Tocatì challenges the pandemic and leaves no room for disappointment. Despite the activities we have not yet reached the number of 250 in the pre-pandemic period, compared to only 25 last year, this year 101 proposals have landed in the city from Belgium, Cyprus, Croatia and France. Apparently Veronese and tourists were waiting for nothing else. Yesterday the city center was swarming with people of all ages and even today, if the weather holds up, there is a bet on a repeated full house.
Organized by the Ancient Games Association in collaboration with the Municipality of Verona, the XIX edition of the International Street Games Festival will close its doors tonight after an intense day still full of proposals. Among those to be considered unmissable is the descent along the Adige, in the early afternoon, of the rafts built under the Castelvecchio bridge by the artisans of San Michele all’Adige.
For the little ones Piazza dei Signori gives the opportunity to create personalized wooden spinning tops, to be colored in a bizarre and original way, all to be discovered, thanks to the volunteers of the Hermete social cooperative. In the same square you can also approach the art of walking on stilts. There is no shortage of archeocaccia among the monuments and an infinity of board games. Original, in an unprecedented location never used before, atArco dei Gavi, also the petanca, a Provençal game of small bowls, while in the central Piazza Erbe in addition to skittles and the traditional game of nuts typical of the Cinque Terre, the shooting with the vertical arc of Flemish Belgium.
Our local is unmissableor S-cianco in piazza Nogara, while in the courtyard of the Court the more daring can participate in “The wheel is rolling,” a test that consists precisely in pushing a round bale of straw weighing 250 kilos. All to admire, finally, the challenge, from the name Scalillo, for those who transport an 8-meter ladder faster, traditionally used for the harvest of Asprinio d’Aversa wine.
In short, there is something for all tastes (with lots of tastings at the game tavern in Palazzo Forti and courses at the island in the kitchen of Lungadige San Giorgio) to spend a Sunday that, from 10 to 12.30 and then from 15 to 18.30, will entertain with urban and board games essential to regain possession of that vitality put to the test by over a year and a half of the pandemic.
In addition to readings and conferences, among the exhibitions that enrich the Festival, al Forum in the Old Market Courtyard, the exhibition «Food and Game. The Geoportal of food culture “by ICPI, and there will be many workshops for children, including the one in Santa Maria in Chiavica at 4 pm and the story of the white whale told by herself, with an appointment at 11 and 17 in the cloister of the Civic Library.
