On Sunday 10 November the community of Biassa celebrates the traditional patronal feast of San Martino which also this year includes a series of initiatives organised by the Pro Loco “insieme per Biassa”.

The festival was presented yesterday morning during a press conference at Palazzo Civico by Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini, by the Tourism Councillor Maria Grazia Frijia and by the President of the Pro Loco Association “Insieme per Biassa” Nauisicaa Pomini.

The 2024 edition is particularly important because the “Festa di San Martino 2024” has received a contribution from the Liguria Region as it is recognized as a historical and traditional event present in the area for more than 25 years. An important recognition that repays the efforts that the Pro Loco together with the entire Biassea Community puts in place every year to realize the event and promote the area.

"The Feast of San Martino has been recognized by the Liguria Region as a historical and traditional event and this represents recognition for the work carried out in recent years by the Pro Loco, but also the importance of the commitment of an entire community in promoting its traditions, ancient crafts and typical products. - declares Mayor Pierluigi Peracchini - As an Administration we are convinced that to build the future we must not forget our history and our cultural roots, a precious heritage to be preserved and protected, and we have created many significant projects in this sense such as La Spezia Forte, which brought to light and returned to the city the Batteria Valdilocchi, the Parco delle Mura, the Galleria Quintino Sella, the former Convent of the Poor Clares, historical sites forgotten for decades that today are available to everyone again, but also created or supported many initiatives that tell our past."

"We have always believed in the added value that the Pro Loco bring to the territory. The Administration has always and wholeheartedly supported the Pro Loco who work all year round with great commitment and for this they must be thanked. The Councilor for Tourism Maria Grazia Frijia declared - In March 2022 we signed a specific agreement with the Pro Loco of the territory precisely to provide adequate resources and implement forms of collaboration to facilitate the work that is carried out every day and which represents an important element of promotion and enhancement of the territory of their competence from the historical-cultural, social, environmental and typical local products point of view. The Feast of San Martino is an example tangible that has earned it important recognition as a historical and traditional event."

From 10am to 17pm Sunday 10th November the village will return to the medieval era with "Biassa in the Middle Ages" an initiative sponsored by the Municipality of La Spezia.

Visitors will be immersed in a suggestive ancient atmosphere inside a path where they will be able to appreciate a market exhibition of ancient crafts, refreshment points, medieval dances and fights, archery, falconers with the Falconieri della Fortezza association, medieval dances throughout the day, archers and flag-wavers by the Pontremoli historical group.

Will be held Educational play workshops for children, created in collaboration with the Civic Museums and guided tours until the evening by the Zoe cooperative. There will also be space for a fruit and vegetable market exhibition with the organic group of Piazza Fregoso and there will also be ten medieval trade stations, including a large medieval camp created in collaboration with the association of “arti sparse”. “Ostello Tramonti” will take care of the refreshment points scattered around the town with beer and wild boar stew.

The “Associazione tutti” will offer typical medieval foods: soups and minestrone, typical cakes of the period while the Tandem association will cook roasted chestnuts and chestnut fritters, sgabei castagnaccio. There will be no shortage of live music with the musical group “in vino veritas” who will perform medieval songs and melodies.

E for the ninth consecutive year, the extemporaneous painting competition “autumn in the woods” will also be held, in which painters of any pictorial tendency can participate. They will have to create their works on site, which must be inspired by the places and atmospheres of Biassee including the territory and the sea of ​​Tramonti. The works must be completed by 15,45:1645 pm to be exhibited until 10:150 pm on Sunday 100th in the square of the parish church of San Martino. The canvases will then be judged by a popular jury. First prize € 50 – Second prize € XNUMX – Third prize € XNUMX

To facilitate traffic and reach the village without the aid of a car a free shuttle service has been set up that will depart from Viale Fieschi near the main door of the “A. Picco” stadium. The service will be active from 9,30am to 18pm and will be operated by 2 shuttles with a frequency of 25 minutes.