The Carnival is an ancient celebration, born with man and his wish to celebrate life and the passage from winter to spring. Every year Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) is coloured with confetti and float parades. In Friuli Venezia Giulia there is no shortage of ideas: climbing the regional mountains of the Alps and Prealps and taking a backward route to the coast of Trieste you will find cultural and linguistic islands that present the most original carnival celebrations and cakes of Friuli Venezia Giulia
Carnival celebrations in Sappada (1st, 8th, 15th, 17February) take place, as in the past, on the three Sundays before Lent, and are dedicated to three different social classes: the “Sunday of the Poor” (pèttlar sunntach), the “Sunday of the Farmers” (paurn sunntach), the “Sunday of the Gentry” (hearn sunntach). the typical mask is the rollate.
The Carnival of Sauris (14th February), one of the most ancient Carnivals in the Alps, is characterized by the traditional use of wooden masks, the "Rolar" and the "Kheirar" and by peculiar dress-ups, made using all kinds of materials and garments found in the most remote spots of one’s home, in the cellars or in the attics.
The Carnival of Resia (14th -18th February is represented by two kinds of traditional masks: the “te lipe bile maškire”, the beautiful white masks, the best known because they are presented in the performances by the Val Resia folk company as well, and the “babaci” or “kukaci”, the ugly masks.
In the Natisone Valley, the Pust v Benečiji is an archaic and mysterious carnival, just like the landscape of the Natisone Valleys where it is celebrated. It's going to take place in San Pietro al Natisone on February 7th and 8th February, featuring typical masks from the towns of Rodda, Mersino and Montefosca; animalistic and anthropomorphic figures, angels and devils, roosters and hens, flowers and bells, benevolent and malevolent characters, all of them mysterious.
Muggia's Carnival (12th -18th February) dates back to the 15th century and traces its roots to authentically classic Venetian traditions influenced by the Istrian Peninsula.
The Karst Carnival (Kraski Pust in Slovene) has been taking place in Villa Opicina ever since 1967 and attracts masked groups and allegorical floats from towns in the Karst regions of Trieste and Slovenia.
PHOTO CREDIT: Ulderica da Pozzo
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