Tradeshow Adorooo a fair, I (Bru) I think seeing all those magical fruits and vegetables exposed, so beautiful and fragrant, I am even willing to eat, although not as fruit lol ... not to mention our pastel right? hehehe, thinking that this post will talk about the trade fairs in Europe, the photos will focus on how our food here ok ?
Fair in Stockholm - Sweden HISTORY OF FAIRS
Human history is replete with references to fairs. No one knows for sure where and when it appeared the first fair, however there is data that allow us to say that in 500 BC had fairs in the Middle East, including in Tyre.
The first references to fairs appear mixed with references to trade, religious holidays and holy days. The fairs always proved a commercial character from the beginning. Merchants from distant lands would gather, bringing their products to exchange for others. It is also clear that religion went hand in hand with commerce. The Latin word feria, which means holy day, holiday, is the word that gave rise to the Portuguese trade fair, the English or English hurt fair.
Fair in Verona - Italy After the decline of the Roman Empire, the medieval fairs represented the moment when the resurgent trade in Europe in the late eleventh century. Europe came out of feudalism, in which people lived in small areas, which produced everything they needed, and when something was missing, could it through trade.
Fair in Helsinki - Finland However, the Crusades reopened the way the Mediterranean Sea and allowed Europeans to a greater contact with the East, where goods brought rare and exotic (clove, cinnamon, pepper, silk, porcelain), much coveted in the Old World. At this point, we speak in the revival of trade, given that these goods were brought in and made the money until then hoarded, returned to circulation.
Fair in Ljubljana - Slovakia These products began to be sold at fairs in towns that appeared reborn. As these new towns were called boroughs, in virtue of its fortified walls, city dwellers have become bourgeois, term subsequently applied only to traders enriched their practice. During the fairs is interrupted medieval wars, peace was guaranteed to sellers, placed side by side, could work safely. Likewise, the guards were guarding the perimeter so as to prevent any disorderly could disturb those who passed by and wanted to make their purchases. The medieval merchants held transitions intermediaries for commercial and trade activity in a highly itinerant.
San Sebastian - Spain While dozens of acrobats, juggling, sought to amuse the people who moved from tent to tent, continuing shopping. The medieval fairs were installed at strategic locations such as the crossing of trade routes, and some even have international coverage. The revival of trade necessitated the use of money, a practice that had disappeared almost completely in previous centuries. Fairs, as there were people who came from various places, had a wide variety of coins in circulation, which developed banks and exchange.
Fair in Bergen - Norway Source: Flickr: shaggyshoo, Bluebird0927 (Off / On), imagistpoet, topgold, ahrstrom52, Wikipedia.
