723 Perdonza Celestino, Festa San Agata, Lago Scanno, August 20, 2017

Now is where I have to admit we were so bad and went to the beach instead of to the 723rd Perdonza Celestino. The mayor was very disappointed in us. Next year! Today is the Festa San Agata. For reasons that are not clear to me, the priest in CVS has refused to do Saint days anymore. There was only one Saint parade this year and that was for San Giovanni (my name saint). San Rocco has been locked away in the church somewhere. No one, but the priest knows where, and San Agata is supposedly in the church, but that is as close to outside as she is going to come. There is no band today and no concert at the big fountain, although it has been all cleaned in her honor. There is a big market today in CVS in her honor. 

It is garlic harvest time. 

Truck load of garlic.

Market of San Agata. 

Here we are with some real pilgrims who did the 723rd Perdonza Celestino. Trust me it is a very long walk.
They were so lucky to have their pictures taken with us who walked to the piazza. 

View of the Sirente from Goriano.

Lago Scanno

Lago Scanno with lots of water vehicles to rent.

The road around the lake is all one way and you can rent bike cars to go around it. 

A beautiful hill town in Abruzzo that I thought was named Anniversary of Abruzzo, but I can't find it for sure. 

Now we are home and there are the most clouds we have seen in two months. It has not really rained here for three. We are so hopeful. Driving today we could see a big fire up above Sulmona and a small one in the area of Corfino. Luckily for us we were not going to those places, but the fire by Sulmona was big. What is amazing is that there are not more fires at this time. It is dry as a bone, lots of trees have died, and the wind is howling.