Carnevale di Chiaramonte Gulfi - Sagra della Salsiccia
In the hilltop pork capital of Sicily, Carnival is inseparable from the sagra della salsiccia, with streets lined by grill-smoke and stands offering the Chiaramonte sausage that has been cured here since the 17th century alongside masked groups and floats.
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"An ancient ribbon dance of Norman origin performed in the highest village of the Madonie mountains, the Ballo della Cordella sees costumed dancers weave coloured cords around a maypole in a ceremony last documented in medieval Sicily."
Ballo della Cordella
"The Madonie hilltown of Caltavuturo hosts an August folklore festival bringing international folk dance and music groups together with Sicilian traditions for an outdoor celebration in its historic centre."
Festival del Folklore
"Pollina is one of the last places in Europe where manna is still harvested from ancient ash trees by incision, and its August sagra celebrates this extraordinary and almost-forgotten Sicilian sweetener with tastings and artisan demonstrations."
Sagra della Manna
"In Sicily's only village built partly inside a sandstone cliff, the sagra del tortone celebrates a uniquely local baked cheese pasta cake at the foot of the famous Sperlinga castle, where Norman defectors once held out for a year after the Sicilian Vespers."
Sagra del Tortone
"One of Italy's most beautiful villages, Montalbano Elicona dresses its medieval streets in Aragonese costume each August for a multi-day historical festival centred on the 14th-century royal castle of Frederick II of Aragon."
Feste Aragonesi
"Randazzo, a remarkably intact medieval town built entirely from black Etna lava stone, stages its annual historical festival with costumed processions and period markets through streets that survived every Etna eruption for 700 years."
Festa Medievale
"A beloved mountain-village summer institution at the foot of Monte Melanico, where each of 14 consecutive weekends spotlights a different Caserta speciality from arrosticini to caciocavallo impiccato, paired with the local Casavecchia DOC wine."
Sagre di Liberi, Arrosticini e Caciocavallo Impiccato
"A summer sagra dedicated to pinsa, the traditional Friulian flatbread with sweet and savoury toppings, celebrated in this village on the edge of Udine's agricultural plain."
Sagra della Pinsa
"A long-established goose festival in the medieval hill village of Fagagna, celebrating the prized oca in pinzimonio and other traditional Friulian preparations over more than two weeks."
Sagra dell'Oca
"The most beloved frico festival in Friuli, held in the hamlet of Carpacco since 1982, where the iconic cheese-and-potato pancake is cooked fresh to order each evening around the village square."
43^ Sagre dal Frico
"Born in 1982 to fund the village dairy, this beloved Ferragosto sagra in the hamlet of Carpacco cooks frico, the golden cheese-and-potato disc of Friulian tradition, live at the pan for thousands of visitors across six summer evenings."
Sagre dal Frico di Carpacco
"Held since 1970 in the magnificent octagonal piazza of this small Bolsena lakeside village, this Ferragosto-week sagra serves hand-made gnocchi under 250-table gazebos, celebrating the patron San Lorenzo and the local stoppia bean harvest of the Tuscia."
Sagra degli Gnocchi di San Lorenzo Nuovo