These are a typical feature of the local countryside in the Carso and Gorizia region, whereby farmers can offer their wine, ham and cheeses directly on their premises, advertising their presence with a branch of laurel or ivy and a red arrow (the so-called frasca). This is a tradition of Austro-Hungarian heritage enabling producers to sell their Carso specialities for eight days a year (the name derives from the Slovene word for ‘eight’: “osem”). The plains of the Isonzo area and Friuli also have their “private” or “frasche” which normally do not sell food but only wine and have a predominantly male clientele. Today, in the same areas and often in the same farms, agriturismi have developed as a natural evolution of the osmiza.