La Saint-Ours
For over a thousand years, every corner of Aosta has filled with artisans, sounds, scents and encounters. A unique event where history meets today’s creativity.
2027 Programme
All the events of the Millenary Fair, day by day
28 – 31 January
Daily · 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
“Dialogos” – Exhibition created by the Aosta Valley Craft Museum (MAV)
Exhibition hall of the Collegiate Church of Saints Peter and Ursus
28 and 29 January · 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
30 and 31 January · 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Atelier des Métiers
Piazza Chanoux
The space where professional artisans display and sell their work.
28 and 29 January · 10:00 am – 7:00 pm
30 and 31 January · 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Food and wine pavilion
Place Plouves
The space where local food and wine producers display and sell their products.
29 January
9:00 pm
Opening concert of the Saint Ours Fair
Church of Saint Ours
With the Sant’Orso Choir.
30 January
8:00 am
Opening ceremony
Piazza Arco d’Augusto
With the Aosta municipal band.
2:00 – 6:00 pm
Veillà di Petchou
PLUS Aosta – Viale G. Garibaldi
An event for children to experience the atmosphere of the Millenary Fair: an afternoon of woodworking workshops, theatre, giant wooden games and spinning-top activities. As tradition has it, the afternoon ends with the fun “Hay Battle”.
In collaboration with the Aosta Valley Craft Museum (MAV) and the Municipality of Aosta, with the support of the Aosta and Hône educational care centres, the Fondazione Sistema Ollignan and the folk groups La Clicca and Comité des Traditions Valdôtaines.
- Activities for children aged 0–3, run by MAV
- Woodworking workshops: making spinning tops for children aged 3–12, run by MAV
- Exhibition of spinning tops by Luigi Merivot, curated by MAV
- Spinning-top and wooden puzzle play area, run by Il Tarlo
- CicloTornio, run by Il Tarlo
- Live music with folk groups at the start and finish
- Hay Battle to close the afternoon
6:00 pm
Solemn Mass for the artisans
Church of Saint Ours
From 7:00 pm
Traditional Veillà (night festival)
Historic centre
A popular festival with folk groups and free broth and mulled wine.
30 – 31 January
30 – 31 January
1027ª Fiera di Sant’Orso
Historic centre
Over 1,000 artisans exhibiting throughout the historic city centre.
8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Special “Saint Ours Fair” philatelic souvenir
Hôtel des États
By Poste Italiane.
Punti Rosso Neri
Historic centre
Regional dishes in pavilions run by local Aosta Valley associations (Pro Loco).
30 January · 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
31 January · 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Lo Tsaven de la Foire
Covered market – Piazza Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto
Taste products from Coldiretti Valle d’Aosta.
31 January
3:00 pm
Award ceremony of the 1027th Saint Ours Fair
Piazza Chanoux
20 h 30
Closing show: Bar à Chants
Teatro Splendor
During the Foire de Saint-Ours, in the streets of Aosta, between a veillà and a bistro, voices meet, instruments change hands and one song leads to another. From this world of music, memory and encounters comes Bar à Chants: a play on words that turns the historic Charabàn into the name of an imaginary place to meet and sing together.
Led by the Trouveur Valdotèn, Maura Susanna, Louis de Jyaryot, Fabien Lucianaz, Lele Collé, Erik Bionaz, Christian Sarteur and Ruben Voyat travel through the soundscape of the Aosta Valley with songs in patois and French, Alpine melodies, hurdy-gurdies, button accordions, flutes, bagpipes and percussion. Voices alternate, seek each other out and become a choir. Celebration gives way to listening, memory becomes present again, and tradition returns to what it has always been: living material, able to change and to bring people together.
Bar à Chants is an invitation to come in, take a seat at an imaginary table and get carried away by the singing. Because the Foire is not just something to see: it is a shared story to live, listen to and share.
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