Sit back and relax – it’s the Ferragosto festival

After Christmas, Easter and New Year’s Eve, Ferragosto — a marking of summer vacation — is the most popular holiday in Italy. But you don’t have to travel an ocean to celebrate it.

On Aug. 15, head to Garibaldi-Meucci Museum for its Ferragosto celebration, where your family can play bocce, learn to dance the Tarantella, take a free tour of the museum — in English or Italian — and enjoy delicious foods from various regions of Italy available for sale, as well as a selection of Italian wines for the adults to taste.

Or celebrate like a real Italian and just chill out and play cards, chat with friends, or take a siesta on a blanket on our lawn.

The festival is a day of rest, after all.

Ferragosto celebration at Garibaldi-Meucci Museum [420 Tompkins Ave. at Chesnut Avenue in Rosebank, (718) 442-1608], Aug. 15 from 4-8 pm. Free. For info, email info@garibaldimeuccimuseum.org.

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