"A twelve-edition mountain culture festival threading cinema, guided trekking, author talks and local food tastings across the high-altitude village of Castel del Monte, with transhumance and pastoral heritage as the 2026 theme."
Festival del Gran Sasso
"A festival of music composed for the cinema held on the island of San Pietro, using the Ligurian-dialect village of Carloforte as an atmospheric open-air backdrop for film scores and live performances."
Creuza de Mà
"Now in its 29th edition, this mountain film festival spreads across Gran Paradiso villages including Cogne, Aymavilles and Rhemes, screening nature and adventure films outdoors amid some of Italy's finest alpine scenery."
Gran Paradiso Film Festival
"Paolo Fresu's internationally celebrated jazz festival, founded in his home village of Berchidda, transforms vineyards, piazzas and rural corners of the Gallura hills into intimate open-air stages each August."
Time in Jazz
"Now in its 16th year, this theatre festival stages performances on and around the water at Arona on Lake Maggiore, blending outdoor drama with the lakeside setting in a programme beloved by locals and visitors alike."
Il Teatro sull'Acqua
"For three candlelit evenings the ancient stone hamlet of Lundo near Comano Terme switches off all electric light, with over fifty figurants and professional theatrical performances including a theatrical Nativity, videomapping and a prize-winning marionette company."
Shalom, Pace: Presepe Vivente nel Borgo di Lundo
"This Sienese hill village's open-air nativity spectacle deploys over 300 figurants through every corner of the historic borgo, from a gladiatorial arena and Roman market to the manger itself, making it one of central Tuscany's grandest Christmas events."
Praesepium di Casole d'Elsa