Competition in salting pilchard, tasting and buying salted and marinated pilchard as well as pilchard dishes, lecture on the traditional way of preserving, processing and preparing pilchard.

Fažana Fishing Academy “Pilchard” opens up its doors to the land and sea! A specially interesting activity is its School of salting pilchard. It is a chance to try your hand at this old skill of the sea, cellar and kitchen, stand by the competitors who in marked tin containers arrange salted pilchard, using their knowledge handed down from generation to generation…

Children, locals, visitors, beginners and experts: they will all learn or say something about the needed amount of fish, salt, oil, spices… And after three months the tin containers will be opened and the best salted pilchard will be announced. A special occasion for tasting and a chance to talk about the choice of perfect wine for such festive occasions. In any case, the fish must be salted properly! And to know that, school is needed. 

PROGRAM: SCHOOL OF SALTING PILCHARD - we invite you to salt your own container of pilchard under the expert guidance of Fažana’s fishermen, course semester for attendants and visitors

LECTURE ON TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY WAYS OF PROCESSING AND PREPARING PILCHARD

GASTRONOMY OFFER „SARDELIJADA“: various pilchard dishes 

TASTING AND SALES OF TYPICAL ISTRIAN PRODUCTS: olive oil, cheese, prosciutto, Istrian wine and brandy, fig products, honey, Istrian pastries

FISH MARKET “PAOLO AND NINA’S” – presentation of Fažana’s fish markets in the 1930s and sales of salted pilchard

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS