Aperitif and Easter games
On Easter Sunday, after mass, enjoy a toast with an aperitif and the traditional "Pechenada"! Relive the customs of Val di Fassa... and who knows, you might even take home a haul of coloured eggs!
On Sunday, 20 April, immediately after the Easter Mass, we look forward to seeing you at the parish hall in Pozza for a moment of celebration combining taste and tradition! We will toast together with an Easter aperitif and kick off the fun "Pechenada", the ancient challenge with coloured eggs. Who will win? Only those with the strongest hand (and egg) will find out! The proceeds from the event will be donated to youth activities in the parish.
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).
