Carnevale Storico di Offida - Lu Bov Fint e Notte dei Vlurd

"In the medieval hill-village of San Ginesio, perched above the Sibillini mountains, Ferragosto brings the Palio della Pacca, a ring-joust on horseback in which the four rioni compete for the drappo in one of the most intimate and authentic giostre in the Marche."

Palio della Pacca - San Ginesio

"The tiny walled town of Servigliano, laid out on an Enlightenment grid inside its intact bastioned walls, stages a medieval knightly tournament each August in which the contrade revive the martial customs of Castel Clementino with lance-work and pageantry."

Torneo Cavalleresco di Castel Clementino

"The oldest white-truffle show in Le Marche, held across the UNESCO-recognised truffle-hunting town of Sant'Angelo in Vado, combining a piazza truffle market, guided truffle hunts with dogs, cooking shows, an international motorbike rally and medieval cellar tastings over seven autumn days."

Mostra Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco di Sant'Angelo in Vado

"On the slopes of the Monti Sibillini near the legendary Monte Sibilla, this 47th-edition market-sagra brings together local chestnut growers, honey producers, woodworkers and folk musicians in a mountain village that feels genuinely suspended between forest and sky in late October."

Sagra Mercato della Castagna di Montemonaco

"Running since 1966 in a small Apennine town that processes around two-thirds of Italy's truffle trade, this multi-weekend fair draws truffle hunters, Michelin chefs and gastronomes to the dramatic Furlo Gorge countryside of the Marche."

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo Bianco di Acqualagna

"Italy's foremost inland truffle fair, held since 1966 in a small town that handles two-thirds of the national truffle trade, filling its piazza with Tuber magnatum pico hunters, cooking shows and a competitive truffle market across five autumn weekends."

61ª Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco di Acqualagna

"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