Festa della Birra
It’s Oktoberfest time - but the venue is the German embassy in Rome. The mayor of Munich (“Monaco” in Italian) taps a keg of Munich beer
and – speaking in Bavarian dialect – solemnly declares the festival to “officially opened”. The 1,400 guests are well-prepared for this outburst of “Dolce Vita Bavarese”: they have been issued a booklet that includes Bavarian-Italian translations of all the important Oktoberfest vocabulary, with everything from a liter of beer
(“A Mass Bier = Un litro di birra”) to a
pretty girl (una bella ragazza"). Munich musicians play, pretzels, radishes and roast chicken, among other Bavarian delicacies, are served: Rome has clearly been relocated to Bavaria for an evening … and beyond that. n mwe
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