Frika Fest

Farmer’s Festival in Tolmin: tasting local cheeses and celebrating Alpine traditions.

There will be loads of fun in Tolmin on 11th October 2025. This weekend marks the symbolic return of shepherds from the high mountain pastures, where they churned milk in small communities on the mountains all summer, while the cattle munched on the best vegetation between the Alps and the Mediterranean. The people of Tolmin combined the traditional Farmer's Festival with the festival of the Soča Valley culinary delicacy “Frika”, and created FrikaFest. At the two-day event, you can sample unique cheeses from the Soča Valley, with Tolminc cheese at the forefront, as one of the most recognisable local cheeses.  On October 11th , 2025, the main square and the streets of Tolmin will smell of alpine pastures - of cows, cheese and delicacies. More at www.frikafest.si