Historical Carnival of Coumba Freida in Ollomont

The 2025 edition of the Historical Carnival of Coumba Freida saw Ollomont in its usual role of opening the carnival season for the Great St. Bernard Valley and Valpelline. The 'landzette', with their flamboyant costumes inspired by the uniforms of Napoleonic soldiers and adorned with thousands of sequins, beads, and mirrors, animated the village with parades, dances, and family visits. A collective ritual with strong propitiatory value, which every year renews in the Aosta Valley municipality, in the province of Aosta, one of the oldest and most iconic traditions of the Alps.