Corsa delle Ranocchie
Participants race around the village square pushing a small cart carrying three live frogs, stopping to retrieve any escapees before continuing, creating a chaotic and thoroughly endearing Maremma village spectacle.
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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
"A centuries-old mimetic pantomime in which a hundred costumed villagers re-enact a 15th-century royal siege, with cannon fire, cavalry charges and a red-masked general fighting for the hand of a queen in Piazza Umberto I."
Il Mastro di Campo
"Called Sicily's most original Carnival parade, this grotesque mock-wedding procession fills Montelepre's streets on Carnival Sunday with intentionally absurd brides, grooms and wedding guests whose spectacular costumes send up every marriage cliche."
U Matrimoniu - Carnevale di Montelepre
"A quirky and beloved folk event in the remote mountain hamlet of Groppo in the Vara valley, where the entire village is festooned with elaborate handmade scarecrows that line the streets and squares for a day of communal celebration."
Groppo e gli Spaventapasseri