This festival is simply a joke. There is nothing Italian about this place, not even the food, games, entertainment, etc. This is the ultimate price-gouging event one can go to. Be prepared to spend a lot of $$$. There's a path that i'll call the "Retail path" that is completely irrelevant to the festival. People demonstrating Kitchen Chef cutlery, a Mexican women selling premature baby turtles which probably doesn't have a permit, and a bunch of knockoff, cheap goods. What does this have to do with Italian culture?!! Most of the food is 'meh' with extremely inflated prices. A small portion of tortelli and the cold fried ravioli came to $23. Never. Again.