One click at a fair of Vicoforte Sanctuary

Last night I was driving home, in Vicoforte, a small town in the province of Cuneo, was the last day of the famousfair of the Sanctuary. I passed through the people in my car and at one point I had the idea.

Luckily I had my trusty 40d with Manfrotto tripod because the night before I went to photograph the fireworks.

At the carnival this year there was a carousel incredible, at least 20 m high that revolved on a pivot at the ends of which were fixed 4 seats. Photographically beautiful.

The result is a click 4 seconds f 10 iso 200.

The event is one of the oldest fairs in the Piedmont that they are not lost. Every year on September 8 to 10 at theNativity of Mary, the patron saint of Mondovi and Monregalese, hundreds of stalls and cattle traders of all kindsgather around the majestic Sanctuary of Vicoforte.

The fair began practically together with devotion to the ancient shrine around which was built the Sanctuary. Legend has it that the chest of the fresco of Mary and Child gushed blood after Giulio Sargiano hit him by mistake hunting.We are in 1592. From those years during the feast of September 8, thousands of pilgrims from everywhere began to pour into the surrounding areas and also the fair was born spontaneously.

Once it was an unmissable event for all the inhabitants of the nearby Liguria Monregalese and today is a bit more commercial.

I still remember my grandfather telling how to Roburent, not very close, we went in procession to the sanctuary of Vicoforte through roads and trails lost in the woods. Logically did not go empty-handed, they brought the fruits of the summer almost over trying to earn some money or exchange it for products which are difficult to cultivate in the mountains in preparation for winter. Stories of the past that have transmitted to us the beauty of the event.