Thanksgiving day celebrated in Fornoli every year, the second Sunday in November, has ancient roots and celebrates the end of rural season and the beginning of winter. During the Mass at the offertory boys and girls dressed in the typical clothes of the peasants bring the fruits of the harvest to the altar.
After the religious ceremony the priest gives the blessing to agricultural vehicles that participants have gathered in the square by the Church. Over the years, another tradition that is rooted in the parade of the same agricultural vehicles from Fornoli to capital and vice versa. Follows a lunch in the parish hall and in various restaurants in the sorroundings .
in the last years, the event is accompanied by food stalls, musical entertainment, demonstrations of crossbow shooting, wood carvings made “‹”‹with chainsaw and exhibition of the work of primary schools.
Program
hours 9:00 – preparation of the stands.
hours 10:00: – gathering of tractors – early exhibition of school work.
hours 11:00 – Holy Mass
hours 12:00 – tractors blessing and parade in the Valley Floor.
hours 13:00 – lunch at restaurant "la ruota".
hours 15:00 – parade of tractors through Fornoli, Cafaggio Val Fegana.
hours 16:00 – awards schools.
FEAST OF THANKSGIVING
Bagni di Lucca , loc. Fornoli
2016 November 13
free admission