Festa di San Martino — Palse di Porcia

The patron saint's festival, in the heart of autumn

In Palse, a hamlet of Porcia in the Pordenone area, November 11th is the most significant date of the year: it is the festival of Saint Martin, the community's patron saint. Around this anniversary, the Festa di San Martino comes to life, a three-day event that combines devotion, peasant tradition, and conviviality, organised by the association Palse in Festa.

The flavours of the past

The common thread of the festival is traditional cuisine, designed to rediscover the flavours of the past. On the table are the great classics of Friulian autumn: muset e brovada, fasioi con la seola, frico, radicio e fasioi, simple and tasty dishes that tell the gastronomic culture of the Friulian countryside and the link with the Saint Martin season, a time for pork and new wine.

Three days of community

In addition to good food, the programme offers music, entertainment, a market, games for children, and the traditional event of "se fa el porsel", the processing of pork according to peasant custom. All accompanied by religious celebrations in honour of the patron saint.

A tradition that is renewed

The result of the work of the volunteers of Palse in Festa, with the support of the Municipality of Porcia, the Festa di San Martino is an event deeply rooted in the community: a "tradition that is renewed", capable of bringing together faith, peasant memory, and the desire to be together in the heart of the Friulian autumn.