Campionato Mondiale del Fungo
Organised by the Parco Nazionale Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, this unique two-day world championship sends hundreds of foragers into the beech forests of Cerreto Laghi to compete on porcino harvest weight, litter collection, and mycological knowledge.
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"Tiny Premilcuore, one of Romagna's most unspoilt medieval villages on the edge of the Casentino forests, holds its centuries-old Ferragosto fair with local produce, crafts and mountain foods on Italy's great mid-August holiday."
Fiera di Ferragosto
"In its 37th edition and recognised by the Consorzio Europeo Rievocazioni Storiche, this four-day medieval pageant in walled hilltop Mondaino commemorates the 1459 peace between Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta, with contrada competitions, a crossbow tournament and over 100 artisan stalls."
Palio de lo Daino
"A traditional two-day medieval reenactment in this small Bologna Apennine comune, featuring a historic market, demonstrations of ancient crafts and trades, costumed processions, live music and street food."
Rievocazione medievale di Castel di Casio
"This fraction of Mirandola in the Modena plain has dedicated an entire sagra to its locally grown watermelon, celebrating a quintessential summer crop with sweet-focused stalls and festive community spirit."
Sagra del Cocomero di San Martino Spino
"Pavullo nel Frignano's patronal fair of San Bartolomeo is a long-established late-summer market in the Modenese Apennines, drawing the surrounding mountain communities together for food, goods and festive celebration."
Fiera di San Bartolomeo
"San Secondo Parmense's annual fiera celebrates its two most prized products: the fortanina local white wine and the slow-cooked spalla cotta, a shoulder of pork unique to this small Po plain comune."
Fiera della Fortanina e della Spalla di San Secondo
"Perched at 1,077 metres in the Madonie mountains, the tiny village of Geraci Siculo revives a medieval jousting tournament in honour of the Ventimiglia lords, its 14th-century overlords, with horsemen competing in the ruins of their ancestral castle."
Giostra dei Ventimiglia
"Mounted knights from across Europe gather at the foot of Castel Coira in the Val Venosta for three days of jousting, lance-breaking and horsemanship contests set against an Alpine medieval backdrop."
Giochi Medievali di Venosta
"Campagnatico's spirited donkey race pits the village's contrade against each other in a parade of historical costume followed by the Palio dei Ciuchi contest, a cheerful and very local counterpoint to the grand Sienese racing tradition."
Palio dei Ciuchi
"Vintage cyclists ride the white gravel strade bianche of the Chianti hills on pre-1987 bicycles in this nostalgic race that ends with a proper wine festival in Gaiole, blending sporting heritage with the flavours of the harvest season."
L'Eroica
"Deep in the Madonie mountains this medieval hilltop borgo hosts a collaborative allegorical float parade drawing carts from five surrounding villages, crowned by a masked equestrian parade organised by the Cavalieri Contea di Geraci association."
Carnevale di Geraci Siculo - Sfilata Equestre in Maschera
"One of Sardinia's most breathtaking ancestral rituals: around a hundred bareback riders thunder down a steep hillside to the sanctuary of San Costantino, re-enacting the Battle of Milvian Bridge amid gunfire, dust and devotion."
S'Ardia de Santu Antinu