Guastalla hosts the Dumpling Festival, a traditional triennial festival that commemorates the popular uprising that took place in the mid-XIXth century in the town against the oppressive tax on ground wheat.
The event aims to commemorate the uprising by a group of millers and intellectuals, who were joined by the people in a satirical procession praising the arrival of a new king, fairer and more benevolent, capable of bringing a different social order to these lands. What they then did was organize a popular and convivial festival, in which they distributed dumplings made with the flours produced by the milling. In the context in which this celebration was born, the coronation of the king thus indicated the hope of the arrival of a new golden age, which would relieve the people of the Lower Po Valley from their misery.
On schedule are gastronomic tastings, performances and historical parades (May 18 at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.).
