Sasso Mobile

This fair has been the traditional end-of-summer event of Pontecchio for over three hundred years. Colors, sounds and flavors of the Tuscan-Emilian Appennine Mountain farming communities take center stage in a festival deeply rooted in the memory of the local population. Every year in the days around the 8th of September a long-established and nostalgically reassuring scenario repeats itself: in the timeless setting of Castello de' Rossi, in the Pontecchio part of Sasso Marconi, an array of artists and artisans, minstrels and bards wend their way between the stands of Sdaz, richly laden with antique sieves and other household objects, from dawn until deep into the night. Entertainment abounds: performances, curiosities, cavalcades of domestic animals and heaps of local foods realistically evoke an atmosphere of a long-ago era. Local agricultural history comes alive as farm folk carry out the work of their forefathers with the actual tools and equipment they had used: threshing, winnowing and griding wheat for breadmaking, pressing and working grapes for wine. Attending the Fair is like taking a journey back in time to rediscover simple and magical sensations of an authentic \"folk festival,\" against the perfectly preserved backdrop of this fairy-tale palace and its charming hamlet.