Osei Festival

Name: Osei Festival
Start: 2026-09-05T00:00:00+02:00
Location: Cisano

An ancient tradition that is renewed every year

Centenarian hunting fair. The ancient "Sagra dei Osei" is an appointement which combines fair decoys, hunting fair, bird call competition and birds exhibition. During these festive days you can also find food and wine stands, concerts, luna park and a beautiful firework show. The origins of the Festival In the first half of the last century the employment was almost exclusively, and the systems to combat this atavistic hunger, in addition to agriculture were hunting and fishing. Fishing for the presence of the Lake and the hunt for the geographical location on a migratory route which is regularly pass by our areas the birds from the north northeast direct milder climates for the winter. In the 13th century were raised bird fairs, some of which still are held. Just then the nobles, land owners, it reserved the game resident hunting, mainly of fur, and gave the power to the people, that already made him abusively, to hunger, to capture the birds with nets. From there the need to provide networks and tools suitable for the purpose, and behold the birth of fairs. Although not documented, it is very likely that even "la sagra dei osei Cisano" be kind at that time. This shows that although there are fairs that boast ancient origins, a hundred years ago the bird most famous fair of Italy was our.

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