“Arlois e fasois”, the bean festival in the valley of time, an event combining the food, culture and traditions of Val Pesarina. On both days there is plenty on offer, from museums and exhibitions to children’s workshops, markets and guided excursions, all accompanied by good music and excellent dishes made with beans and more.
The event is also an occasion to celebrate the two typical products of this enchanting and secluded valley of Carnia, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, dominated by the peaks of the Pesarine Dolomites.
The first product is clocks (arlois in Carnic), whose production, known all over the world thanks to the name “Solari”, began in the late 1600s and continues to this day.
You can admire monumental clocks along the streets of this charming village and visit the Clock Museum, the “Bruseschi” Carnic House Museum and the exhibition of cinema and photography machines in the hamlet of Pieria.
The second product celebrated by the festival is beans (fasois), grown in every family’s vegetable garden and on small farms and prized for the purity of their seed. In the many varieties grown in the valley, they are a manifesto of biodiversity to be conserved, preserved and valued.
