Strawberry fields forever

I’ve heard so much about this fruit called strawberry. Anyway, my feelings about the strawberry did not deter me from going to the Sagra Delle Fragole, a sweet strawberry festival held in Nemi, near Rome. This festival is dedicated to the local fragoline di bosco or wild strawberries and to Diana of Nemi, the goddess of the hunt; ‘her hunt of wild berries in the woods’. The Sagra Delle Fragole is held late in May or early June, depending on when the fruit is harvested. Strawberry sellers would give the fruit to people passing by from baskets, which also carried the statue of Saint Antonio of Padova.