As in most of the Italian towns, also Portalbera is divided in districts, called contrade, which every year play some funny games to denote which one is the best. The contrada where I live is named Contrada dei Santi, the Saints’ district, did not partecipate last year, but had a great return in the first day of the challenge.
There are several games, distributed in different days, and the first one today was the football tournament, with an additional rule: each team must have at least a player under 18 and one over 40. We won both the matches we did: the first was easier, 8-1 the final result, while the second a little bit harder was won for just 1-0; in any case, after the first day, i Santi are on top of the league. To know the winner we must wait until tomorrow, for the second day of the tournament.
In the evening, some other games were played: the musichiere, where people should listen to a song and guess the title, pictionary, played by my parents, where you must let your partner guess some words by miming or drawing them, and chi cerca trova, where people had to guess some objects’ names by solving some puzzles or crossword and find those tools anywhere in the town. Pretty funny, we won the first two games, but unfortunately lost in the third one: the final result saw i Santi at the third place. But it is not yet finished!
Tags: palio delle contrade, portalbera