PARMA STREET FOOD Festival

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The photo shows small street food trucks ( "Meatball family " serving meatballs ; truck serving spanish street food specialties; stand with two girls preaparing some pasta ; Pizza truck ; singer playing guitar during the concert (credit Local Guide@Giuseppe75)
The photo shows small street food trucks ( "Meatball family " serving meatballs ; truck serving spanish street food specialties; stand with two girls preaparing some pasta ; Pizza truck ; singer playing guitar during the concert (credit Local Guide@Giuseppe75)1173×1173 488 KB

This weekend, the beautiful Parco Ducale in my city Parma , Italy was guesting one of the most important event organized in spring and called “Parma Street Food festivals”.

The festival is organized every year (in different areas of the city) and attracts visitors from all over the region Emilia Romagna (Italy)

Funny shows, concerts and the best food trucks join this unique " food rally" to propose their italian and international specialities for the joy of kids and adults.

Most of the weekend the weather was not so nice (raining most of the time) but at least on Friday evening we were lucky to enjoy as much we could the happy atmosphere with a delcious sandwich, a glass of craft beer and good pop music.

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Photos showing foods: sandwich with Roast-beef, salad and sauce; Typical Sicilian Pastry "Cannolo Siciliano" with ricotta cheese cream and Pistachios; grilled artichockes "alla Romana", chicken nuggets and roasted chickedn legs. (credit Local Guide @Giuseppe75)
Photos showing foods: sandwich with Roast-beef, salad and sauce; Typical Sicilian Pastry "Cannolo Siciliano" with ricotta cheese cream and Pistachios; grilled artichockes "alla Romana", chicken nuggets and roasted chickedn legs. (credit Local Guide @Giuseppe75)1564×1564 434 KB
Small food street trucks serving their specialties (Taberna ITAKA serving greek specialties; a man slicing the Brasilian specialty "Churrasco"; FRISH serving sea food specialities and its menu (credit @Local Guide Giuseppe75)
Small food street trucks serving their specialties (Taberna ITAKA serving greek specialties; a man slicing the Brasilian specialty "Churrasco"; FRISH serving sea food specialities and its menu (credit @Local Guide Giuseppe75)1564×1564 508 KB

Street acrobatics during the festival, young man jumping in the air above a group of 4 people, public enjoying the show (credit Local Guide @Giuseppe75)
Street acrobatics during the festival, young man jumping in the air above a group of 4 people, public enjoying the show (credit Local Guide @Giuseppe75)1848×1490 1.16 MB

Photo taken by Local Guide @Giuseppe75, poster with branding of the Street food festival in Parma (Italy)
Photo taken by Local Guide @Giuseppe75, poster with branding of the Street food festival in Parma (Italy)1224×1254 258 KB

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@Giuseppe75

Oh my god, this street food festival must have been so good. I would have love giving it a try!

Lucky you.

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Hello @Julien44 , thank you for your appreciation. Yes this is a big event in Parma and you can imagine the happiness of all kids (and adult) choosing their favorite finger foods or delicious cake. The lovely aspect is that you may enjoy music and shows around the beautiful section of the bigger Parc of the city. You are more than welcome in Parma and you might have heard about the past influence of French and Marie Louise. Have a great weekend (hopefully for you with the sun) :blush::sun_with_face:

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@Giuseppe75 I can imagine :heart_eyes:. Thanks for welcoming us! You are so kind.

Unfortunatly, history is not what I am good at! I don’t know about the frend and Marie Louise influence. Please tell me more!

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@Julien44 , It would be my pleasure to have the possibility to meet you and your family.

I was born in South of Italy (Brindisi, Italy but Parma has become my city of adoption and I love so much living here (now since 1995😊).

Some history notes :

Marie-Louise of Austria, who was married to Napoleon, was Duchess of Parma. From then on, between the city and France, there has always been a very strong link. Architecturally, Parma looks a little like Paris with the river PO (torrente Parma) crossing the city. In the past people liked to call Parma with the nickname: “Little Paris”. Even the local language (dialect) has similar expressions with French. Especially in spring and summer around the many restaurants or monuments of the old town it’s easy to meet French tourists that stop here to visit the nice monuments and taste the Local food specialities that you may have read in my post​:wink: hope I gave some idea about Parma and thank you so much for asking me about it. Keep in touch :+1:

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@Giuseppe75

Thanks a lot for the details. Much appreciated

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Hi @Giuseppe75 ,

Thank you very much for sharing pictures and tell us about this festival in your city!

Sounds like you had good time there, I keep in mind to post next food event in my city too.

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Hi @Rich-r ,

Thank you so much for your appreciation. I am glad you liked my post. I had a lot of fun and it’s incredible how many visitors come to taste these delicious street foods specialties from many part of the world. Thank you

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I truly love the street food festival because I get the opportunity to try different types of mouth worming food, thanks @Giuseppe75 for sharing​:blush::ok_hand:

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@Giuseppe75 Thanks for sharing, it feels like I was part of it! Bravo :+1:

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Hi @SirB , thank you so much for your kind words. I am glad you liked it and hope to come back with other stories to share. Have a great new week. :blush::+1:

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Hi @Giuseppe75 ,

Thanks a lot for the nice post and for letting me know!

This festival looks amazing and the food that you tried there. Is it organized every year? I’ve attended only one time beer event when I visited Germany. There was a bike with beer and the people were driving the bike while drinking beer. For me it was very interesting and funny because in my country we don’t have such events.

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Hi @PoliMC ,

Thank you so much for your appreciation of my post and for sharing with us your funny experience during the beer event in Germany.

Yes, the Parma Street Food Festival is now organized every year and I heard that in 2020 will be even bigger and will offer more additional events for the fun of adults and children.

As Parma’s citizen I feel a bit proud because Parma, Italy has taken the title of Italy’s Capital of Culture 2020, in a final that also featured many other beautiful Italian cities like Agrigento (Sicily, Italy), Reggio Emilia (Italy) and the amazing Treviso that our moderator @ErmesT knows very well :slight_smile:

I let you imagine how many tourists will visit Parma in 2020 and along the year there will be so many cultural and culinary events that will represent the most beautiful showcase for this beautiful city.

I am thinking that there will be no better occasion for me to organize next year a big meet up in Parma :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the post, and for the tag @Giuseppe75

Fortunately I will go for lunch in a few minutes, as this is quite hard to read with hunger :slight_smile: LOL

I am always available for events about food (or wine)

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Hi @Giuseppe75 ,

Thanks a lot for your reply!

That sounds great! If there are more such events, you can share with us them here and to include a lot of photos and description!

I’ve been in Bulgaria only on a Chocolate fest and on a Wine fest, but unfortunately have not so many photos from there.

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@PoliMC sure, I will not miss to share my photos on Connect.

Ps : the chocolate fest sounds amazing to see and to taste :wink::blush:

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Hi @Giuseppe75 ,

Thanks a lot for the reply!

Yeah, the chocolate fest was just wonderful. I bought a lot of things from there. Here is one of them:

Caption: A photo of a box with different type of chocolate candies (Local Guide@PoliMC)
Caption: A photo of a box with different type of chocolate candies (Local Guide@PoliMC)1080×956 57.3 KB

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Haha @Giuseppe75 , @PoliMC

I heard someone mentioning “chocolate Festival”. My bad, I had to write a post about Chocolate festival in Treviso, and I forgot it, as it was very close to Connect Live 2018 :frowning:

I will remedy, I promise, but in the meantime, what about Tiramisù Day?

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wow @PoliMC ,

Thanks a lot for sharing with us your photo.

Just looking at it we understand how delicious are these chocolates.

The first chocolate on the right with hazelnut pralines seems to ask "eat me" :slight_smile: very orignal the small wooden box as well.

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Hi @Giuseppe75 ,

You are welcome and thanks for the reply!

Yeah, the wooden box is very cute and it attracted me to buy it. But I prefered the white chocolate praline because it’s my favourite. There were also a lot of chocolate fountains. One of my friend has such fountain and we gather sometimes to eat from it and that’s the best time for me.

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