The bonfires of the beginning of the year are a popular tradition of north-eastern Italy consisting of burning large stacks of wood and branches on the evening of the Epiphany eve. It seems that this custom derives from purifying and propitiatory rites widespread in pre-Christian times. For the Celts, for example, this bonfire was used to evoke the return of the sun to the earth, that is, the lengthening of the days starting from the winter solstice. While the bonfire was burning, the farmers in a circle shouted and sang various greeting formulas. Remained intact as a ritual to be carried out on the eve of Epiphany, even today the flame symbolizes hope and the desire for prosperity and better events. The night of January 5 continues to be a moment of meeting for the whole agricultural community which hopes for more generous gifts from the earth than the past.

The most superstitious still pay close attention to the direction of the smoke, when they express their personal wishes collected in front of the bonfire. Bonfires, therefore, served to weld the sense of community, the integration into a specific social group in which the individual found protection. One of the main traditions related to Panevin is to observe where the smoke goes; based on this, the Treviso farmers predicted whether the vintage harvest would be good or bad and today the prediction is extended to personal events. This moment is called "pronosteghi" and it works, roughly, according to popular sayings such as the following, even if there are many others: «Pan e vin, ła pinsa soto el camin. Faive a ponente panoce gnente, faive a levante panoce tante», which literally means "Bread and wine, the pinza (traditional cake) under the fireplace. Sparks in the west, cobs nothing, sparks in the east, many cobs» or again «Faive verso sera poenta pien caliera. Faive verso matina poenta molesina. Faive a meodì poenta tre olte al dì. Fun a bassa poenta pien cassa» which means: "Sparks westward cauldron full of polenta. Sparks eastward soft polenta. Spark to the north polenta three times a day. Smoke towards south cauldron full of polenta".