Barbasso Village Festival

The festival of a small hamlet

In the Mantua countryside, where villages are scattered among fields and waterways, each place has its festival. In Barbasso, a hamlet of the Municipality of Roncoferraro, in the province of Mantua, the event is the Village Festival, which takes place over a long weekend between late May and early June.

It's the typical village festival: a food stall with local traditional dishes, evening entertainment, and many opportunities for socialising. An event that doesn't aim for large numbers, but for the authenticity of a community that gathers around its tables.

The value of village festivals

In the hamlets of the Bassa Mantovana, festivals like the one in Barbasso have a meaning that goes beyond entertainment: they are the moment when the village recognises itself as a community, when volunteers dedicate their time and energy to bring something shared to life. The spirit is that of conviviality and genuineness of the Lombard rural festivals.

Barbasso and Roncoferraro

Roncoferraro is a scattered municipality in the province of Mantua, in Lombardy, formed by numerous hamlets scattered across the plain east of the provincial capital. Barbasso is one of these, and its village festival is one of the events that, along with the festivals of the other hamlets, enlivens the municipal territory throughout the year.