The origin of this festival can be reconducted to 1314 talking about a festival hold to honour the engagement between
Giberto III Da Correggio, ruler of
Parma from 1303 to 1316, and Engelenda Rossi, also called Maddalena
Rossi di San Secondo daughter of Guglielmo Rossi and Donella da Carrara rulers of Padova. This brought to an end of the several fight among their noble families wanting to dominate Parma. On that day, all the enemy families of Giberto Da Correggio were allowed to return in Parma, and even some prisoners gained back freedom. The games consisted in several competition with medieval weapons and horses. The festival was held every year on 15 August, from the fourteenth century to Napoleon's arrival in the nineteenth century. == Nowadays ==