Fiera del Cacio Pienza
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Fiera del Cacio
Telephone 0577 749905
Where: Centro Storico di Pienza
When: Primo week end di Settembre
Closed: Intera giornata
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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.