Summer country festivals I live in the north-east of Italy and when summer arrives every village organizes their own country festival. We call them "sagre paesane". In the village's square or in a park, temporary constructions are built: a big kitchen, a stage in which musical groups are going to play, a bar, a cash and a big covered space in which are placed tables and benches. The menu is often the same: grilled meat, vegetables, pasta with ragù, fried potatoes, icecreams, sgroppino, wine, beer, polenta. Sometimes there are festivals with a food speciality: for example "hoax festival", "crayfish festival", "cod festival", "cheese festival" etc... In these kind of festivals the menu is enriched with this food specialities. On evenings local musical groups plays on the stage: usually they are "liscio bands" and they play valzers, tango, mazurca and other similar songs that older people love. But in the last years also modern music is spreading in order to recall youngers. On this kind of festivals it's always present a play called "pesca di beneficenza": there is a room full of objects you can win buying some tickets coiled and inserted in a little pasta ring. If the number inside the ticket is written in red it means you have won something: lower numbers mean bigger gifts. Usually numbers are very high and we win soaps, sweets, pens, and other very little things. Last year my husband had been very lucky: he found "35" as red number and he won a smarthphone! The same evening I won an ironing board!