Watermelon Festival in Lari

The “Watermelon Festival” comes back to Lari on 8th August. Dinner in the street from 8 p.m. with a view of the Castello dei Vicari and background music. The Cocomerata is preceded by Holy Mass at the Oratory of the Madonna della Neve

The Tuscan variant “cocomero” to indicate the Italian watermelon, is due to a 6th-century doctor, who used the term “aggourion”. The more appropriate term, which repeats that of the botanists, used throughout Central Italy and especially by the Romans, is watermelon, close to the scientific Latin Cucumis citrullus. Watermelon is a term that invades the whole of northern Italy, with notable dialect variants.