This photo shows funky red and white Fiat 500s with a colourful carousel in the background
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This article describes the Fiat 500 Festival in Treviso.  It’s a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with these funky motors!

Festivals in Treviso

One of the things I loved about living in Treviso, northern Italy, is the fact that virtually every weekend there was something happening in the city centre.  We never seemed to see these events advertised anywhere so, invariably, we stumbled across them during our leisurely Sunday walks.  In this way, we enjoyed, at different times:
  • a chocolate celebration, which included entire rusty tool kits made of chocolate which begged the question, ‘Why?’!!
  • a raddichio fair when the entire main square was covered with a carpet of this prized local vegetable and we were able to sample such delights as raddichio cheese, raddichio wine and even raddichio gelato!
  • an open-air nativity play with real animals, à la The Vicar of Dibley!
  • a huge outdoor playpen for babies and toddlers featuring more toys than I have ever seen in one place.
  • an Austrian wurst market.
  • a skating rink.
  • a picturesque Slovakian Christmas market with the best gingerbread I have ever tasted.
  • a fruit and vegetable carving expo.

as well as numerous antique fairs, book markets, plant sales, art displays, craft stalls, and specialist food fairs.  The list goes on.  There was always something happening!

But my favourite has to be … the Fiat 500 Festival!!

Fiat 500 Festival

This photo shows several Fiat 500s on display in Treviso's main square
Fiat 500s on show

As usual, we didn’t know it was in advance that the Fiat 500 Festival was on.  We had been for a long walk and were heading home when we saw a few of these iconic cars heading for the city centre.  We followed them and came upon about 300 massed in the Piazza dei Signori and the streets leading to it.  I defy anyone not to smile when they see an example of this epitome of Italian eccentricity and here we had hundreds of them pimped, polished and paraded through the streets for all to see!!

There were cinquecentos in every colour with many of the drivers dressed to match their vehicle!  There was a ‘Hello Kitty’ version; one painted to look like the sky; a ‘half-500’ where the already-tiny car had been sliced in half to look like a two-seater settee on wheels; a very old model complete with old-fashioned wooden skis and poles which were so much bigger than the car itself; and even one which had been entirely covered in postage stamps!  There were also a couple of examples of the Fiat 600, the fantastic three-row, six-seater model with the flat windscreen which was used in Rome as a taxi, and which was immortalised in the film Roman Holiday.
We just couldn’t stop grinning as we walked amongst these funky cars – a great way to spend a Sunday morning!

A Photo Gallery of Fiat 500s

This photo shows funky red and white Fiat 500s with a colourful carousel in the background
Funky Fiat 500s
This photo shows a white Fiat 500 with an old-fashioned suitcase and a pair of wooden skis strapped to the back
Going skiing!

 

This photo shows a number of white and cream Fiat 500s making their way to the main square
On the move
This photo shows a Fiat 500 completely covered in colourful postage stamps
Stamp-covered Fiat 500
This photo shows a 6-seater flat-fronted blue and white Fiat 500
6-seater Fiat 500
This photo shows two baby-pink Fiat 500s one of which is decorated with Hello Kitty images
Hello Kitty
This photo shows a Fiat 500 painted as the sky complete with flying birds and fluffy white clouds
Sky-blue Fiat 500
This photo shows a canary yellow Fiat 500 with an apparenty severed arm trapped under the bonnet
Is someone trapped under the bonnet?
This photo shows a parade of brightly coloured Fiat 500s driving down an old street in Treviso
A procession of Fiat 500s

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