Sagre e Mercatini
Fiera del Cacio
PIENZA
Fiera del Cacio
Telefono 0577 749905
Dove: Centro Storico di Pienza
Quando: Primo week end di Settembre
Chiuso: Intera giornata
This exhibition was officially born in 1974 on the initiative of the first president of the Pro Loco.
With the first events are aimed to create movement in Pienza tourism was not yet mass-like today. He took to playing at the Cheese Pienza zone between neighborhoods and also with the 'Giant Trump' to the streets with giant cards, custom then passed out of fashion. Initially, it was also a parade procession of children and adolescents variously dressed as mice cn forms of cardboard on the festival and also floats paraded real. Then the cheese was produced and many were not even in some cases the sheep on farms. The 'Cheese of Pienza' is the 'caseolus' old, that is, the small shape of Crete, far from Pienza marketed' in the ancient Feast of Saint Matthew. The Cheese Fair has developed a sense of thematic aspect of the ancient Fair, perhaps the most important after the cattle market. In the decades that this party has experienced an evolution that has enriched the event and has become an appointment for both Pienza and the districts that organize with the Pro Loco, both for tourists and visitors. Pienza in the territory are now 6:00 to 7:00 pecorino cheese factories that produce high-quality, famous throughout the world. Moreover, already in the late nineteenth century came the Cheese of Pienza Expo in Paris and America.
This exhibition was officially born in 1974 on the initiative of the first president of the Pro Loco.
With the first events are aimed to create movement in Pienza tourism was not yet mass-like today. He took to playing at the Cheese Pienza zone between neighborhoods and also with the 'Giant Trump' to the streets with giant cards, custom then passed out of fashion. Initially, it was also a parade procession of children and adolescents variously dressed as mice cn forms of cardboard on the festival and also floats paraded real. Then the cheese was produced and many were not even in some cases the sheep on farms. The 'Cheese of Pienza' is the 'caseolus' old, that is, the small shape of Crete, far from Pienza marketed' in the ancient Feast of Saint Matthew. The Cheese Fair has developed a sense of thematic aspect of the ancient Fair, perhaps the most important after the cattle market. In the decades that this party has experienced an evolution that has enriched the event and has become an appointment for both Pienza and the districts that organize with the Pro Loco, both for tourists and visitors. Pienza in the territory are now 6:00 to 7:00 pecorino cheese factories that produce high-quality, famous throughout the world. Moreover, already in the late nineteenth century came the Cheese of Pienza Expo in Paris and America.