Carnevale della Coumba Frèida
High on the Gran San Bernardo pilgrim route, this ancient alpine carnival in the car-free village of Étroubles features the colourful landzette masked figures in hand-made mirror-and-bead costumes, accompanied by the violin-playing Sonadur whose folk melodies survive thanks to the valley's historic isolation.
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"In the tiny Valpelline commune of Oyace, this Ferragosto-weekend celebration honours the summer-pasture Fontina DOP with tastings, cheese-making demonstrations and the communal atmosphere of a working alpine village at the height of the dairy season."
Festa della Fontina d'alpeggio - Oyace
"On Ferragosto, the ArtEtroubles sculpture school lines the lanes of this open-air museum village with artisans and woodcarvers exhibiting alongside the permanent outdoor artworks of the borgo medievale."
Mercatino dell'artigianato di tradizione, Étroubles
"Held annually since 1984 on the Via Francigena pilgrim route, this one-night living-history event fills the medieval streets of Etroubles with fontina-making, wheat-threshing, washerwomen, smugglers and morra players re-enacting the village's old winter veillà traditions."
Veillà d'Etroubles
"Three days in the small hillside commune of Gignod devoted entirely to teteun, the distinctively spiced and cured cow's udder salume unique to this corner of the Aosta Valley."
Sagra Gastronomica del Teteun
"Named in the Valdostan dialect for a market of odds and ends, this charming annual flea market and antiques fair fills the historic centre of Morgex with old skis, vintage furniture, gerle baskets and bric-a-brac each summer after mid-August."
Martciä di Barradzüe
"On a sunny Sunday in the Cervino valley village of Torgnon, producers and pastry makers fill Piazza Frutaz with traditional Valdostan sweets and local wines for a beloved late-summer market."
Fiera dei Dolci Valdostani
"The municipality of Melendugno's vast free summer festival runs over 90 events across the village and its Adriatic hamlets, including regular pizzica lessons and concerts that turn Torre dell'Orso, San Foca, Torre Sant'Andrea and Borgagne into open-air stages."
BluFestival 2026, Melendugno
"One of the smallest Grecìa Salentina villages, Zollino hosts a single intimate evening of pizzica under the stars as the great travelling taranta festival passes through."
Festival Itinerante La Notte della Taranta, Zollino
"Calimera, whose name means 'good morning' in Griko, hosts one evening of the travelling pizzica festival in a village that still speaks the ancient Greek-derived dialect the taranta tradition grew from."
Festival Itinerante La Notte della Taranta, Calimera
"Carpignano Salentino, home to a celebrated Byzantine rock-art crypt, fills its piazza for one night with tamburello, pizzica dancing, and the folk orchestra of the travelling taranta festival."
Festival Itinerante La Notte della Taranta, Carpignano Salentino
"Sternatia is one of the last Griko-speaking villages in Europe, making its night on the taranta itinerary a rare encounter between living minority language and the living musical tradition it helped shape."
Festival Itinerante La Notte della Taranta, Sternatia
"Martignano, one of the smallest communes in the Grecìa Salentina with under 1,700 residents, transforms its ancient piazza into a pizzica stage for a single unforgettable night of the itinerant taranta festival."
Festival Itinerante La Notte della Taranta, Martignano