World Heritage connection: Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)

Sadeh/Sada celebration

La célébration du Sadeh/Sada

Sadeh, or Sada, is a celebration held annually on 30 January. In the folk calendar, it marks the day when farmlands are prepared for their next spring plantation and when people celebrate the end of the coldest winter days, with 50 days and 50 nights remaining to spring. Accordingly, ‘Sadeh’ means ‘one hundred’. The element enjoys...