"Mercato delle Gaite", pt.1

Today I want to briefly describe a tiypical representationpresentation/festival that takes place every year in my little hometown city, Bevagna.
At the end of June, we deleteremove every element of modernity (cars, artificial lights, modern clothes) and for a week, we return into the Middle Ages! This typical festivity annual festival [megio così] is called "Mercato delle Gaite.", iIt is not translable incan't be translated into English, but you mustshould know that the "Gaite" are the four districts into which the city is divided. Thoese "Gaite" compete in four challaenges:
- gastronomical challange: every Gaita has to prepare a tiypical medieval food;
- market challaenge: every Gaita has to reproduce exactly a scene of medieval life, with all the inhabitants of the district doing medieval occupations;
- bow challaenge: every Gaita hosts three archers andwho try to win a shooting challaenge, using only medieval longbows;
- crafts challaenge: every Gaita has to repruduce exactly a couple of typical medieval crafts (for example, wool spinning, blacksmithing...).
At the end of the week, a jury of experts decides ["jury" è singulare] which Gaita has done betterthe best job, and assigns the pricze. In the photo: is my grandfather, who is the scribe of my district!