HUGE Italian Street Food Festival of Fried Fish and Seafood, Italy Street Food

Camogli, Liguria, Italy. The Fish Festival is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. The festivities take place in Piazza Colombo, the piazza of the small port. The Sagra was conceived by the lawyer Filippo Degregori and the first edition was held in 1952. The first year they were built on the square of the brick kitchens and throughout the day they continued to fry in six small pans. The introduction of the first padellone took place in 1954, weighed 11 quintals, had a diameter of 4 Mt. and a handle of 6 Mt. in length. In 1960 a new bigger pan arrived 5 meters in diameter. The following year both pans were used. In the seventies another pan came into operation, and in 1986 a fourth one was added, of 4 meters in diameter. In 2001, for the fifty Sagra, comes a new pan, not in iron but in stainless steel, as required by the safety regulations, weighs 28 quintals, a diameter of 4 Mt., a handle of 6 Mt. and throughout the