Bransle des Pois (16th Century Dance) – Val Resia, Julian Alps

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Welcome to Val Resia! A place like no other—where history, nature, and culture meet. Nestled in the heart of the Julian Alps and recognized by UNESCO for its unique heritage, Val Resia greets you with wild, beautiful landscapes. Its people, traditions, unique language, and music create a living treasure found nowhere else. We will surely return here to learn more, to connect deeper, and perhaps learn to play some tunes from the valley’s own music.

But for now, we play Bransle des Pois — a joyful Renaissance dance tune from 16th‑century France. Described in Thoinot Arbeau’s Orchésographie (1589), Bransle des Pois is a chain dance, both rustic and courtly, flowing in circles. Like water.

And time is like water — flowing on irreversibly. Blink, and a century is gone. Half a millennium has passed, yet we are still playing this bransle. So, let this music be your portal across time, as centuries meet in sound and silence. At the meeting point of cultures and epochs, may this tune inspire you to rediscover the authentic and the eternal.