Carnevale Storico di Bibbiena - Rievocazione della Mea
Rooted in a documented 1337 tradition, Bibbiena's historical carnival re-enacts the legend of the beautiful washerwoman Mea and her abduction by the young Count Tarlati, climaxing with the burning of the Bello Pomo bonfire, flag-wavers, medieval banquets and an elected Mea.
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"In the small Sienese hill-town of Sarteano, five contrade mount their knights on Ferragosto to joust against a rotating Saracen effigy in a contest rooted in medieval chivalric tradition, preceded the evening before by the provaccia trial run."
Giostra del Saracino
"For one week every August, Volterra's alabaster-walled medieval centre transforms into a living 14th-century town with period costumes, medieval money, crafts demonstrations and food stands inside one of Tuscany's most atmospheric hilltop cities."
Volterra AD 1398
"For five days each August the Lunigiana market-town of Pontremoli bans cars from its medieval centre and fills the streets with merchants, knights, and clergy re-enacting life under Frederick II's 1226 charter, culminating in the Palio contested between the rival borghi."
Medievalis - Palio di Pontremoli
"Held across twelve evenings in the hilltop wine village of Montecarlo, this long-running festival fills the medieval centre with stands of local Montecarlo DOC wines, artisanal pasta, and art exhibitions in the historic palaces."
Festa del Vino di Montecarlo
"Eight contrade of Montepulciano race 80 kg wine barrels 1,800 metres uphill along the main street to Piazza Grande, with a costumed procession before and a street banquet after."
Bravìo delle Botti
"A beloved September village fair in the thermal-spring town of Rapolano Terme in the Siena hills, mixing local produce, crafts and community festivity in a compact medieval centre."
Fiera del Settembre Rapolanese
"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