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Middle Ages in Valvasone

For more than a decade, on the second week of September, Valvasone becomes the natural setting for a Medieval Festival called “Medioevo a Valvasone” (Middle Ages in Valvasone).

The festival is organized by the Grup Artistic Furlan with two main intents: in the first place to let people know what life was like in Dante and Boccaccio’s times; secondly to promote one of the best well-preserved historic centres in Friuli.
In these three days, which go from Friday to Sunday, the visitors will be catapulted to the Middle Ages and will walk among the ancient handicraft shops reconstructed in the alleys and in the small squares of the town. Moreover they will witness scenes of medieval everyday life and they’ll taste the flavours of the ancient food in the tabernae laid out for the occasion.

For the hard to please, every year a fairy-like medieval dinner is organized in the suggestive setting of the Old Dominican Monastery embellished for the occasion with flower decorations and lit with torches. The commensals, sitted on the four sides of the cloister, will taste typical medieval dishes served by charming handmaids dressed up with the costumes of the time and will watch shows of jongleurs, jesters and fire-eaters.
They’ll be able to support knights masters at fighting with swords and to dance the traditional dances of the time such as the saltarello.
The success of the medieval dinner is witnessed by the presence of guests coming from all over northern Italy.

The event is characterised by a theme that changes every year.

Almanac of the Medieval Festivals:

1993	Insediamento dei Conti di Cucagna a Valvasone The first Medieval Festival focused on the birth of the lineage of the di Valvasone.
1994	Vita e attività nella contea Everyday life at the centre of the Medieval Festival: not only sumptuous parades but also the real medieval life of every day.
1995	Leggi e regolamenti giuridici – Conseguenze della peste A trial that really tok place in Valvasone and the account of what the plague of 1348 was like.
1996	Incendio nel Borgo – Magia e musica Because of an act of retaliation the whole village was burned in 1363.
1997	La fede e la spada Marcellino da Cosa goes on the Crusades.
1998	Venus et vinum The passing of a mysterious knight that enjoys fighting dressed up as a woman.
1999	Il pellegrino Most of the times the pilgrimages were made in order to expiate some guilt…and this happened in Valvasone too.
2000	Rosa fresca e aulentissima The woman at the centre of the attention. She could be aristocratic, religious or of the people and the brothel already exixted at that time.
2001	Sii tu lieto d’esser bovo The biggest part of the population used to live thanks to agriculture.
2002	Aqua vitae Water as an eternal source of life but also of death.
2003	Focus, terra, caelum et aqua Medieval people too used to look at the stars.
2004	S’i fosse fuoco, arderei ‘l mondo The fire, destructive alement, and the game, something indefeasible also in the Middle Ages.
2005
2006	Omnes homines, omnes creatures The theme of the new Medieval Festival focuses on the figure of St. Francis of Assisi.
2007	'l mondo sol di lui canta e favella The legend of St. George and the dragon.
2008	Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe The theme of the Medieval Festival is inspired by the Hell of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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