TOCATI’! The international festival of traditional street games
Author: Serena-On September –
The “Tocatì” (an expression that in the local dialect means “It’s your turn”) is the international festival of traditional street games that are also accompaigned by folkloristic music and delicious gastronomical local products.
The “Tocatì” Festival Poster
This festival occurs every year at the end of September in the Verona’s historical centre’s squares that become some veritable playgrounds completely closed to traffic. Here adults and children can play with spinning tops or with slingshots and with other ancient traditional toys.
Children playing tug-of-war in Verona
You just have to follow the road signs to reach one of the fifty playing areas that welcome every year 200.000 participants.
The particular road signs
Every year a delegation coming from a foreign country is invited in Verona to show its own traditional street games.
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