European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Set s go italian festivals compiled by Mich to Hoy wine festivals town fairs and traditional celebrations decorate the month of August in Italy. Mark these events on your Calendar for a taste of italian history and culture and look for later August events in next week s let s go. The festival of the wine in Mont Fiascone Viterbo continues through aug. 15. The entire town celebrates its local wines with costumed parades games Folk singing and dancing. In Ascoli Piceno the tournament for the Pennant happens on aug. 7. Dating Back to 1378, this festival features More than 700 costumed musicians drummers soldiers damsels and Flag throwers. The festival ends with a jousting tournament re enacting the City s Battle against the Saracens. During the festival of Garibaldi the Adriatic City of Cen Natick Forli remembers the Day when in 1849, the italian hero Garibaldi entered the town. It stages parades games and fireworks on aug. 7. During the festival of the sea on aug. 7 in la spezia the City s Pennant is won through aquatic games and races. Also on that Date Fara Sabina Rieti is celebrating the festival of the Bruschetta with the typical foods of the Region including a delicious crusty bread seasoned with garlic tomatoes and olives. In Fondi Latina you la find the festival of the Corn Mush and sausages and in Pisterzi latinate festival of the seven soups both on aug. 7. In St. Elpidio Ascoli Piceno on aug. 11, the Competition of the bucket will be held. The four town districts compete in a game whose ancient origins Are lost in legend. Each competitor must draw water from a Well while trying to keep the Competition from doing the same. Whoever draws the most water wins the right to use the Well for the rest of the year. The sicilian town of Piazza Armerino Enn famous for its extraordinary mosaics celebrates its history with parades shows and a tournament in the Pennant of the normans aug. 13-14. In Subbio Perugia the tournament of the districts happens on aug. 14, with crossbow horseback Riding and Flag throwing Competition. In Fontanarosa Avellino 90-foot Tower of intricately Woven Straw is erected in the main Square among Folk dancing and singing for the festival of the Straw obelisk on aug. 14. On the same Day Messina hosts the Parade of giants. Two great equestrian statues representing the founders of the City a moorish Warrior and a Viking Queen Are rolled through the streets in a colourful Parade with lots of Folk dancing and singing. Susanna Lind of the circus Roncalli. The feast of the wedding cake will be held in Lavagna Genova on aug. 14. In a festival dating Back Many centuries an enormous wedding cake is rolled to the main Square and distributed in Honor of the Day two local Nobles married and invited the entire population to the wedding. And naturally what s a cake without candles at the festival of the candles Sassaris also on aug. 14, great wooden candles Are carried through the town in memory of a vow that the citizens took during a terrible pestilence in 1652. Child care in Italy if your plans include travelling with children in Italy this summer you should know about the child development centers at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza and Camp Darby in Livorno. The children of summer visitors Are accepted on a space available basis at both facilities. The program is for children from 6 weeks to 12 years old. Activities include Beach Days and other Field trips swimming Tennis fishing horseback Riding and arts and Raits. If a child is registered with a cd or family child care provider parents should take along his registration card and immunization record to Speed enrolment and eliminate additional registration foes. If a child is not already in such a program parents should take his immunization record and a record of his last physical examination if possible. Vicenza is Between Venice and Verona easily accessible from Autostrada 4. Camp Darby is in Livorno on the Mediterranean coast just a Short drive from Pisa. For details on programs and fees Call the cd facilities in Vicenza Auto on 634-7958 or Camp Darby Auto on 633-7620. Circus in Pforzheim the touring circus Roncalli has put up its tents at the mess Platz in Pforzheim West Germany. Featured performers include Rene Stric Kler who handles big cats and Polar bears the suns traditional chinese acrobats and Susanna Lind billed As the Ballerina on horseback. Performances will be held through aug. 14 at 8 . Mondays and tuesdays and at 3 . And 8 . On other Days. For ticket information Call stad information Pforzheim Tel. 07231-302314 or the circus ticket office Tel. 07231-40579. Photography Competition the artists and designers group images of Lite invites photographers to participate in Phot Oart 88 Heidelberg at the Heidelberg Castle and surrounding places in the West German City. The exhibition will be open at the Castle sept. 1 9 25, and elsewhere in the City sept.1 7-oct. 14. Fee for the exhibition is 250 Marks and the deadline for submission is aug. 1 5. For information Contact Lucius Alberts Tel. 06221-163147. Festival of London cancelled the festival of London a $3 million extravaganza that was supposed to run 16 Days through aug. 7, closed at Alexandra Palace after just four Days. Festival director Tim Walsh blamed the persistent heavy Rains that made the grounds too Muddy for some events and also kept crowds away. The festival had been hailed As the capital s most ambitious such program since the festival of Britain in 1951. Its 200 events were to include a Marathon race medieval style banquets open air dancing a reconstruction of an elizabethan Village and victorian streets and performances by the famous Moscow state circus. Only the circus shows continue. Dinner for two saves Money at 2,000-plus restaurants by de Reavis staff writer the latest idea from the United states to influence the old world is the two for one dining system two eat for the Price of one. Herbert Ankenbauer impressed by a similar program he saw in the states decided to give it a try when he returned Home to Vienna about a year ago. Since then he and marketing expert Hans Mai Hart have been Able to persuade More than 2,000 restaurants to participate in their program. The idea marketed in Europe under the name dinner for two is simple two members eat at a restaurant but pay Only for one meal the More expensive of the two. They also pay for All beverages. Presently members get quarterly magazines that update the list of participating restaurants. They also get a personal service card with 40 squares on the Back. Membership is Good for 12 months. A member May eat Only once in any particular establishment under the dinner for two Deal. After the meal the restaurant enters its designated number in one of the 40 squares on the Back of the card. If a customer uses All 40 spaces on the card before his 12-month membership expires he turns the card in and gets a new one at no extra charge. The program s agent in Hessen Peter Sonnenberg says the advantage to the customer is obvious. The restaurant owner he says gambles on the Quality of his food and service. He Hopes to win new customers in this fashion and i know Many an example often cited by agents is the viennese restaurant Ste Rischen where 1,300 dinner for two guests had their books stamped in less than a year. The owners say if 25 percent become regulars they la be satisfied Sonnenberg says. Agents for the program in the Stuttgart Region Larry Miller and Traudl Bart Huber say their business is taking off among americans. We recently put an add in an English language publication and got 400 new members in just a few Days says Bart Huber. At the moment the dinner for two program lists restaurants in Austria Germany Switzerland France Italy and Belgium and the number and Quality is growing All the at first Sonnenberg says the program met with resistance from restaurant owners. Many feared that it was somehow illegal. We finally got a court decision that our plan is perfectly Legal he says. Now we re not Only adding restaurants but branching out with a new program called one for two which will include services such As hotels sport clubs saunas and Sonnenberg says the program also has had problems with restaurant owners who Only want to see dinner for two customers on certain Days or want the option of not offering the Price worthy meal of the Day to members. He says that situation won t exist by the time the next quarterly Magazine conies out around the end of september. When the program first started he says there were also fears among customers that trying to use the membership card would cause unpleasant scenes or commotion in the restaurants. It happened on the rare occasion that a waiter who was t told in Advance that the customers were using the program had some problems with the Bill but we think we and the restaurant owners have got that problem under control he says. Some restaurants do require reservations when using the program but that information is noted in the quarterly. Presently membership costs 50 Marks about $28. Details Are available from Bart Huber and Miller at 0711-845141 and Sonnenberg at 0 1.5 Myor from other dinner for two agents in other t cities. August 4, 1988 stripes Magazine 21
