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A visit to the Italian Renaissance
byNate Gartrell
ext time you pass by Vallejo’s
Blue Rock Springs Park, try to
imagine the area bustling, full
of colorful characters, melodious
stringed instruments, and with the aroma
of Italian sausages, white wine and wood-
fired pizza. Because come May 2nd and 3rd,
the park will transform into such a scene as
Vallejo hosts a new, one-of-a-kind renaissance
fair, known as Carnevale Fantastico.
Renaissance fairs are well known as a great way to provide hands-on history lessons from one of the
most influential and important periods in Western civilization. They tend to focus almost exclu-
sively on British history, but Carnevale Fantastico aims to diversify this a little by bringing focus on
another European country that helped shape the Renaissance Era and influence artists all over the
world: Italy.
