FVG – The Assaggi Passaggi Messaggi Festival of a territory is back with the second edition to experience and learn about the reality of the Friulian Dolomites. Appointment on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October in Valcellina, Val Tramontina, Val Colvera and Pedemontana Pordenonese with two days of events organized by the Magnificent Mountain Community of the Friulian Dolomites Cavallo and Cansiglio.
There are twelve municipalities involved in the rich program (Andreis, Barcis, Claut, Cimolais, Erto and Casso, Tramonti di Sotto, Tramonti di Sopra, Frisanco, Aviano, Budoia, Polcenigo and Caneva) which includes walks, guided tours, yoga lessons or climbing, hiking or cycling, canyoning, forest therapy and local cooking workshops.
“After the success of the first edition – explains the President of the Magnifica Comunità Dino Salatin – we are really satisfied to organize for the second year an event capable of connecting a vast, rich and complex territory, building a shared vision for the protection of the territory , social, economic and cultural development. The Magnificent Community wanted to focus on teamwork and it was a winning idea given that this year we go from eight to twelve municipalities, with institutions, activities and local operators who responded with enthusiasm.”
There are around twenty events scheduled, mostly free and by reservation, unique experiences to share with friends, with family, with children: there are excursions, guided visits to villages and natural wonders, tastings and creative activities for the little ones, trekking to discover animals, canyoning along the streams and yoga in the woods.
To eat or stay overnight during the festival weekend, there are dozens of facilities open (there is a QR-CODE in the brochure that will take you there).
The conference
On the morning of Saturday 5 October in Frisanco we begin with the conference open to all entitled “A mountain of health and well-being”, a theme that can become the glue of all the Municipalities that want to make this area increasingly attractive for those looking for a of a healthy life in harmony with nature.
Speakers will be Camilla Costa, researcher and qualified master instructor of forest bathing and forest therapy, Caterina De Boni, graduate in herbal techniques, shepherdess, musician, wool artisan and founder of the “Alpine botanical garden of the Friulian Dolomites” at Cava Buscada (Val Zemola, Erto), Alice Stocco, biologist researcher in ecology at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice who studies the co-evolution relationship between ecosystems and human beings and Ciro Antonio Francescutto, sports doctor and diabetologist.
Saturday 5 October
In addition to the conference in Frisanco, in Budoia it will be possible to walk along the Troi de Gòr to discover the hidden treasures of the Pordenone Pedemontana, visit the three churches of Castel D’Aviano, or discover the new cultural space of Casso which hosts the fascinating exhibition ” The shapes of the rocks” with the works of art by 54 international artists.
In the afternoon, the guided tour of the magical village of Polcenigo, the yoga, breathing and meditation lesson in the eighteenth-century Villa Ca’ Damiani in Caneva followed, in the same wonderful location, by the presentation of Marianna Corona’s new book “Le Vèinte, le witches del vento ” (Giunti Editore) and, from 4.30 pm until the dark of the night, an excursion in the Friulian Dolomites National Park departing from Cimolais dedicated to listening to the roaring of the deer.
Sunday 6 October
Sunday is for everyone: we start in the morning at the Erto and Casso crag with an introduction to climbing dedicated to adults and children (minimum 8 years) and then again the possibility of discovering the new Casso cultural space with the exhibition ” The shapes of the rocks”.
The nature walk starts at 9.30 near the Pordenone di Cimolais refuge with a final buffet (for a fee). Adrenaline-filled Sunday at the Ciafurle stream in Claut with a canyoning experience (children minimum age 12 years) and relaxing, again in Claut, in the Pian del Mùscol with yoga and Tibetan bells accompanied by the sound of the river.
Everyone in the saddle to discover Barcis and Andreis with the panoramic e-bike cycling tour, while in the Prescudin Forest you reconnect with nature through the Japanese technique of Forest Bathing.
In Tramonti di Sopra you learn to make the Pitina with a workshop dedicated to her, while in Tramonti di Sotto, as part of the “Come and live and work in the mountains” project you can walk with alpacas, have fun with circus workshops and learn climbing.
The complete Festival program with times and information can be consulted on the Facebook and Instagram pages (@apmdiunterritorio) and downloadable from the website
