A Medieval Festival in Bevagna (Umbria): Mercato delle Gaite

The "Mercato delle Gaite" Market of the Gaite is a medieval festival that takes its inspiration from a division of Bevagna (a town of just over 5,000 inhabitants in the province of Perugia. It is included among the most beautiful villages in Italy) in four districts named Gaite which was based on the administrative organization the city during the Middle Ages. The purpose of the event is to reconstruct the historical and greater relevance in great detail the daily life of the inhabitants of Bevagna in the period between 1250 and 1350. To this end, since 1983 a group of scholars examines carefully the Statute of the municipality of Bevagna century from which it derives the necessary information to the historical reconstruction of political, administrative, economic and social development. For ten days, at the end of June Bevagna is a plunge in this remote past: the ancient medieval crafts shops reopened their doors and take over the assets and the streets are filled with Bevan in period costumes that live their daily lives of their ancestors by eating, working, playing just like them.