Christkindlmarkt Silandro - Schlanders
For over 15 years the pedestrian zone of the main village in the western Val Venosta has transformed each Advent weekend into a Christmas market celebrating local artisans, producers and hobby craftspeople, enlivened by the traditional hunting-horn blowers of Silandro.
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"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
"Held every year on the fixed feast of St Bartholomew at the high Corno del Renon plateau, this long-standing alpine pasture festival includes the celebrated return of the Haflinger horses and traditional farming customs unique to the Renon upland community."
Festa d'Alpeggio di San Bartolomeo
"In the vine-wrapped Trentino village of Avio, the vendemmia kickoff combines medieval music, guided tastings with valley wineries, craft markets, cultural site tours, and a national Palio delle Botti barrel-rolling competition between the Cities of Wine."
Uva e dintorni
"An UNESCO-recognised intangible heritage custom in which shepherds return hundreds of sheep via a gruelling 44-kilometre route across snowfields and the Austrian border into Senales valley, with visitors able to walk alongside the flocks and join a traditional celebration with music and local food on arrival."
Schafabtrieb Transhumanz Schnalstal
"Along the famous Keschtnweg chestnut trail of the Isarco Valley, this Alto Adige October celebration combines guided walks through the culturally significant ancient chestnut groves on the valley slopes with a village chestnut market, traditional Tyrolean music and restaurants serving full chestnut-centred menus."
Keschtnriggl, Giornate della Castagna
"On the Saturday before Erntedank, roughly 250 flower-crowned cows descend from Europe's largest high-altitude meadow accompanied by alphorn players and whip-crackers, processing from Compatsch across the Seiser Alm plateau and down into Kastelruth village."
Almabtrieb von der Seiser Alm
"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
"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
"Set in the shadow of the early 19th-century fortress of Bard, this is the valley's premier food and wine market, gathering Fontina DOP, Lard d'Arnad, DOC wines, honey, and mountain liqueurs from all corners of the region."
Marché au Fort
"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