Cherry

Brda is known all over the world especially for its cherries. It is true that they are the most delicious. For this reason the cherry festival, beside the St. Martin's Feast, is one of the central events that attracts many fans to Brda. The adorable little fruits, especially the first ones, all red and succulent; crispy and firm, charm all generations. What is more beautiful than climbing up a tree and eating them to line one’s stomach? Or, simply, to lie in the shade of the branches and enjoy the sweet idleness …


Brda’s inhabitants, or ‘Brici’, have been carrying the old varieties such as black and white ‘cepike’; ‘drugmbernce’; ‘napoleonke’; ‘čufarce’; “tercinke’; ‘čempevke’; ‘vedrjanke’ and others in their baskets, transporting them with carriages all around, and preparing many delicious dishes with them. They were already appreciated in the times of imperial Vienna. The elite in far off St. Petersburg, Prague and other European capitals were indulging in eating this sweet fruit. A special postal service took care in those times of fresh shipments, and for the inhabitants of Goriška Brda these were their first wages after a long winter.