Origins of the "women's" celebration and dance

<p>A journey into the heart of the history of mountain people and what remains of rural life, when the sacred and the profane celebrated together, at sunset, the joy of dance, music, and fertility.</p>

<p>A circular walk that begins and ends at the gates of the Fairy of the Dolomites. Moena thus becomes a sort of &#34;open sesame&#34; to introduce you to a world where the traces preserved over time celebrate Ladin imagination. Then climb to Penìa. The tabià, ancient wooden haylofts, tell the farming and pastoral life, and Malga Peniola cooks fortaie and apple fritters exactly with the old recipe. Such a suggestive place that it was chosen by Carlo Mazzacurati for his last film. Nearby, in the little church of San Giovanni Nepomuceno, you can still feel the echo of the barrel organs that on May 16 made pilgrims dance until night. Continuing silently through Prà Compert, which provided minerals for iron smelting, you reach Medil, a valley treasure that resisted depopulation and pastures left to the forest. Here a plaque &#34;MEDIL paradise of women&#34; commemorates a mostly male village where every woman who arrived was welcomed like a queen.</p>