Italians 'turn water into wine'
Marino's Sagra dell'Uva is one of the oldest grape festivals in Italy
Wine started flowing through taps in dozens of homes during an Italian grape festival in Marino, south of Rome.
At the heart of the town's famous Sagra dell'Uva, or Grape Festival, is the moment when sparkling white wine flows from the fountains in the main square.
But this year locals and tourists had to make do with water, as bad plumbing meant the wine supply was switched by mistake to local homes.
People come from as far away as France and Germany to watch the display.
"Every year, during the Grape Festival, we interrupt the water supply to the main fountains in the town centre and we channel wine into them instead to re-evoke a famous victory," Mayor Adriano Palozzi said.
Accidental supply
"But this year," Mr Palozzi said, "Due to a technical error, instead of connecting wine to the fountains, we accidentally channelled it into some local homes.
"Apparently the people living around the square who got the wine coming out of their taps were very surprised, they thought that it might be some kind of present from the local council! It only lasted three minutes, we corrected it straight away."
About 10 to 12 houses were affected, and the main bar on the town's square also had wine instead of water.
Commemorating the Battle of Lepanto, October 1571
Each year, they hand out 150 tonnes of grapes and provide 3,000 litres of the local white wine during the four-day festival.
The grape festival, which is one of the oldest in Italy, commemorates the return of Admiral Marcantonio Colonna to his home in Marino after his victory over the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571.
The town sent more than 250 sailors to the battle. The sagra is celebrated on the first Sunday of October to give thanks for their safe return.
water to wine
I think, that in the future we are confronted to wine producers, who sells their wine at a lower price in the EU,then the "compagnie française des eaux" drinkable water in Arabian countries. Water is beside the the changing of climate the question to have something like a live able .planet.
Ulrich Merkel
Someone must teach me how to
Someone must teach me how to turn water into wine!
I think that it is possible only in The Holy Bible.
like it
I like this topic :)
I think that Italian wines are one of best...eaven, I like our won wine that we produce, I have a large vinyard and I enjoy all work around vineyard :))
Definately something that
Definately something that most of us would like to see it happen to our houses :P
oh my god i haven't heard
oh my god i haven't heard this before. it is really interesting. i am surprised.
if we could do it in our friend groups that would be really fun. Think about it youth!
never could have known
Wow, I can't believe it. There's absolutely no chance for something like that to happen in this ex-eastern block country. Turn water into wine ... I bet the people there are not only glad of the ancient victory against the turks but it has some religious reasons as well. It's strange I didn't hear about this on TV.
İnteresting and cool
I liked tis topic... I find it cool...
the same
I think the same than rako because the clear water which is free of bacillis and salt and so on is more helpful for the peoples.
This is an interesting topic
This is an interesting topic to be discussed.
But it would be much more useful to turn waste water into drinkable.