The event takes place throughout the old town and sees the re-enactment of a country fair from the beginning of the last century, with stalls, street performances, games and gastronomic specialities.
For the occasion, everything will return to how it was in the early 20th century, with the town completely transformed by an atmosphere typical of the Belle Époque. Street signs, cars, and other symbols of contemporaneity will disappear, making way for wooden market stalls, booths with old-fashioned games, notice boards with municipal notices, and posters with early advertisements. The town will then be populated for the duration of the event by figurants in period costume, such as the town crier with the newspaper, the barker with his concoctions, the servants, the guards, the artisans at work.
In this context, on Sunday afternoon, the ZOGO DE L'OCA IN PIAZZA (ZOGO OF THE GOOSE IN THE SQUARE) takes place, the true highlight of the event, a large board game structured with 63 large squares measuring two metres by two, dice and giant pawns, with which to perform tests of skill. The teams from the capital and the five hamlets of Mirano (Ballò, Campocroce, Scaltenigo, Vetrego and Zianigo) will compete.
The atmosphere of these two days of celebration is made even more special by the rich CULINARY TRADITION associated with the goose. Since the dawn of time, in fact, to celebrate the end of the agricultural year, local farmers used to eat goose products. Linked to this bird there is always