San Michele amarcord

• … and they used to rinse clothes in the Ombrone
• After September 8th 1943
• Between the twenties and thirties
• Corrado Capecchi, military internee
  • A medal (at last) for Corrado
  • The joke of the military internees
• Five places of Romanesque Carmignano
• Friar Bocci, at the beginning of the twentieth century
• From archaeologists to farmers
• Gino Balena
• Gino di Fico
• Historical shops in Carmignano
• In the name of Jesus and Saint Peter, may the sty go away
• Liberation day
• Matteucci, the ‘forgotten’ bishop
• Soldier in Greece
• Stories from a school notebook
• Stories of donkeys and jockeys
• Stories of mayors and town councils in Carmignano
• Stories of our home
• Stories of war and displaced persons
• The Battistina and other scary stories
• The colours of the rioni
• The Golden Roster
• The last sharecropper in Carmignano
• The siege in memory of the Princess
• The tree of liberty in Carmignano
• Ugo Contini Bonacossi
• Vittorio’s bicycles
• When the river Arno was fordable ..
• When they were digging pietra serena between Arno and Ombrone
• The colours of Carmignano, a small guide for tourists
  • Ancient churches and abbeys. Montalbano, a crossroads for pilgrims.
    • San Giusto al Pinone
    • San Jacopo in Capezzana
    • San Leonardo in Artimino
    • San Lorenzo in Montalbiolo
    • San Martino in Campo
    • San Michele amarcord
      • San Michele, the theater takes to the streets
• Itineraries for just a few days or more
  • Walking through history and nature
  • A Sunday devoted to the discovery of Artimino
  • A few words about the hamlets of Carmignano
  • The Fontina and Castagnati Lake
• Guides to download

The feast of San Michele is by far the liveliest initiative in Carmignano. It is a festival unique for its kind: street theater, among the people and with the people. A race between four districts, with carts that become incredible sets, costumes that unroll, ballets, plays rehearsed and special effects. Maybe a thousand people in the streets, others behind the scenes. A real choral show, with different stories every year: one for each district, half an hour each.

In this section we tell some stories and anecdotes, told by the protagonists themselves, a party that in 2012 celebrated its eightieth anniversary.
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A contest between districts, a great show San Michele amarcord: Gino Balena, the man who changed San Michele.  The colours of the districts not chosen randomly
Riding four donkeys Gino Fico and other stories of the blue district
The roll of honour of San Michele in eighty years of celebrations