Shepherds' Festival in San Sebastiano
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Shepherds' Festival in San Sebastiano

03 Aug 2025
Folgaria — Trento (022)

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Edition 2025 — Shepherds' Festival

The 2025 edition of the Shepherds' Festival took place on Sunday, August 3, in the streets of San Sebastiano, a hamlet of Folgaria on the Alpe Cimbra. It was a day dedicated to pastoral culture, featuring hand-milking demonstrations, milk processing for butter and alpine cheese production, meetings with cheesemakers and farmers, folk music, and mountain gastronomy with polenta cooked over an open fire.

Shepherds' Festival 2025

On Sunday, August 3, 2025, the hamlet of San Sebastiano in Folgaria hosted the Shepherds' Festival, a summer appointment dedicated to the pastoral traditions of the Alpe Cimbra. Along the village streets, there were hand-milking demonstrations and milk processing for the production of butter and alpine cheeses, with the participation of local cheesemakers and farmers.

There was also goat trekking, wool workshops for children, folk music with accordions, and polenta cooked over an open fire accompanied by local cheeses. An authentic event, organized by the San Sebastiano Youth Group, which united community, memory, and a love for the mountains in the province of Trento.

Where does it take place — Shepherds' Festival

Centro di San Sebastiano

Contact Shepherds' Festival

Tel
+39 0464 724100

Shepherds' Festival in brief

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