The Cricket Festival

Festa del Grillo, or the Cricket Festival is performed on the first Sunday after Ascension at the park of Le Cascine, in Florence. The huge park to the west of Florence, where Shelley wrote Ode to the West Wind, is the setting for this event, a celebration of the joys of spring.
Stallholders used to sell live crickets, which were then released to bring good luck.

Festa del Grillo (Ascensione di N.S.)
Parco delle Cascine
Viale Abramo Lincoln -Firenze
May 6th, 2011