The Pumpkin Festival is an almost unique event for its somewhat playful way of interpreting the ancient chronicles of the Land of Venzone. Born almost by chance in 1991, mixing a desire for novelty, a search for originality, and a lot of goodwill, the success, as always, was decreed by the people, coming to the town even from abroad, to spend a few fun hours there, among entertainment, good food, history, and folklore: this is the Pumpkin Festival, which enlivens Venzone always on the fourth weekend of October each year. In the historic center of the medieval town, musicians and jugglers, fire-eaters, noblewomen and knights, characters like the Archduke of the Pumpkin and the members of the Sacred ArchConfraternity of the Pumpkin, the terrible guards, the charlatan and the beggar, the rustic with the fowls, and many others magically appear as if from a fairy tale or, if you prefer, from a history book. But at the center of it all is the pumpkin itself. Pumpkins everywhere: in the square, in shop windows, in inns and taverns, on stalls, pumpkins seasoned in every sauce, able to satisfy even the most curious and demanding palate, pumpkins of every shape and size, even measured with that impromptu contraption known as the zuccometer. That's not all: there is also the exhibition contest of the precious (and often forgotten) vegetables: pumpkins carved or decorated in a thousand ways, becoming small works of art. A special prize goes to the heaviest: there have been pumpkins over 450 kg!

All thanks to the precious work of about 350 volunteers