The story
Fiera di Sant'Orso in Aosta
An Alpine craft fair held in Aosta every January 30 and 31, tied to the feast of Saint Ursus and documented for roughly a thousand years, bringing woodcarving, wrought iron, lace and traditional Alpine implements to stalls set among the city's Roman-era walls and ruins.
Fiera di Sant'Orso fills Aosta's streets each January 30 and 31 with wooden crafts, wrought iron, lace and other traditional Alpine goods, a market whose documented origins reach back roughly a thousand years, tied to the feast day of Saint Ursus, a local patron associated by legend with distributing wooden clogs to the region's poor during winter.