Keschtnriggl - Chestnut festival

The Chestnut Weeks and the Törggelen in Merano and Environs have been a South Tyrolean tradition
for years. Chestnut days in Tesimo/Tisens - Prissiano/Prissian, Foiana/Völlan and Lana gets its name
from the "Keschtnriggl" - a hand-braided basket for peeling roast chestnuts. For three weeks, a colourful event programme is put on for visitors: Chestnut walks, torchlight processions from castle to castle and the "Keschtnfestl" feast in Foiana, with music, farmers market, chestnut delicates and traditional crafts.

The aromatic fruit with its spiky shell, grows particularly well in Merano and Environs, and during this green Event has pride of place in the specialties of traditional inns and prestigious restaurants, as well as in exquisite chestnut products such as sweet chestnut hearts, aromatic chestnut beer, hearty chestnut stollen, tasty chestnut spraed, luxuriant chestnut cake, fluffy chestnut bread, the excellent chestnut panettone as well as the noble chestnut praline.