"Pechenada" with the folk group
On Easter Sunday, after mass, relive Fassa traditions with the folk group of Soraga. Who will bring home the most coloured eggs?
On Sunday, 20 April, after the Easter Mass, the folk group of Soraga will be waiting in the meadow in front of the church for the "Pechenada". The winner will win... To find out, you will have to challenge the other contestants! And that's not all: take part in the weighing and guess the load on the scales!
An Easter tradition that still lives in Val di Fassa is the battle with coloured eggs, which in Ladin is known under the verb "pechenèr". The rules of the game, in pairs (once made up of men only), are that each challenger must try and break the opponent’s eggshell, thus conquering his egg. The competitions are carried out "de spiz e de cuf" (with the egg’s top or bottom). Once were the women, especially girls of marriageable age, who painted the Easter eggs on Holy Saturday. When in that period a potential fiancé went to visit them at home on Easter Sunday, they offered him five, following the Ladin saying that goes: "Un no l’è da dèr, doi no i è da tor, trei vegn dal cher, cater l’è da mat e cinch l’è d’amor" (One mustn’t be given, two are not to be taken, three come from the heart, four are like crazy, five are of love).
In case of bad weather, the date is in the "Gran Ciasa" multifunctional building.
