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This village is a tiny Venice, with canals and picturesque bridges. It is quite photographic.
If I ever offered a watercolor outing for American painters, this would be one of the places they would come before heading north to Venice.
There is also an intersting fishing boat harbor minutes away--follow the canal to the sea. You can't miss it.
Written Oct 12, 2010
Address: East of Ferrara
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Here is a short foto description of the walk through the festival and what you will find there. If you come on a weekend with good weather, you will be pleased to see this. Plan to spend several hours walking to the end and back.
Written Oct 12, 2010
Address: Sagra dell' Anguilla, Comacchio
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Here is a photo description of the preperation and cooking of the eel.
You can buy it on the pedestrian walkway, from the many restaurants and bars or from the festival barbecue area.
Written Oct 12, 2010
Address: Sagra dell' Anguilla, Comacchio
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After you pay the 3 euros for parking you walk for 5 minutes and cross over the canal where you will see a bustling fish shop. Featured during this time is eel, but they have other types of fish. If you view the foto below you will see some of what they offer.
After this shop you will walk towards the festival and find an interesting bridge--see below.
This festival called Sagra dell' anguilla has a long pedestrian area filled with booths of food stuffs from all over Italy.
If you like the kinds of foods you find in Italy, this is your place. Everything from olives of all types, to cheese from different regions to breads. This festival is not entirely about eel.
You want a mojito? There's a Brasilian booth serving it up. Want some red hot chili peppers? They got them here. How about some bread with green olives inside? Come and get it.
And after all that walking, you can sit down and try a piece of barbecued eel--or if you don't think that is exactly what you want, you can get other types of food. Not everyone eats the eel.
Written Oct 12, 2010
Address: Located east of Ferrara near the coast
Phone: 053381302
Website: www.comacchio.it
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We found it difficult to find seating anywhere in the Festival spending too much time walking around and not planning ahead. This Trattoria gave us a reservation with a wait of 45 minutes, in which we used this waiting time to visit and taste some wines of the area.
Service was slow, but expected as they were overwhelmed with customers out for the fine day of good weather.
I would recommend this trattoria to anyone visiting the Festival or for any other time of the year.
Favorite Dish: We had an assorted appetizer--see below.
I ordered the barbecued eel, you can also have it fried.
You will also see fried seafood as a choice.
Most of the diners were ordering polenta, but I chose fried potatoes.
I saw a nearby diner having clams and mussels in red sauce over spaghetti. It looked great.
Written Oct 12, 2010
Address: Via L. Muratori 51
Phone: 0533314563
Website: trattoriadelborgo@alice.it
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At the begining of October Comacchio have a big festival to celebrate its most known product, the eel (Anguilla). The lagoon near Comacchio have always been used to breed eels and every restaurant in town serve BARBECUE EEL as main specialty.
During the festival you can decide to have lunch at the municipality food stand, it is usually cheaper than a real restaurant but as good. You will eat sitting at a sort of picnic table under a big tent, if your group does not fill a table you will probably have to share it with other customer. This is actually part of the fun.
We went there during a Sunday and restaurants and stand were really crowded. Make sure you decide where to have your meal and, if you pick a restaurant, make a reservation as soon as you decided which one, in case you pick the stand, try to go early, around 12, italians eat later and you will not have to stand in line forever to get a seat.
Eel are NOT my favourite fish... it feels kind of weird to eat something that, alive, look like a serpent.... but they are a must of Comacchio. If you do not have the "guts" to try those, you can have lots of other fish and pasta.
Beside the eels, during the festival the city organize also food markets and other activities.
The site link I write below is automatically translated into english, the original one, only in italian, [http://www.comacchio.it/]HERE*
Updated Feb 20, 2011
Website: http://it.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=it_en&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comacchio.it
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If you plan to eat eel at this festival I would suggest eating a bit earlier than normal because after 1:30 the restaurants and festival food area fills up. Seating is difficult and you may have to wait as I did for over an hour.
If you go to a restaurant do not expect the best and quickest service as the festival overloads the cook staff and it is difficult to keep up with the overwhelming crowds. It is best to go with the mind set of eating slowly and enjoying your friends, etc.
I would also recommend that you make a reservation at a restaurant when you first arrive. Then you can return and find a place to sit.
Written Oct 12, 2010
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