Festa della Cucina Bianca
In one of Liguria's highest and most remote villages, Mendatica's cucina bianca festival showcases the ancient mountain cuisine of the Alta Val Tanarello, where every dish is built on hand-ground white flours, local cheese and herbs.
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"The Valbisagno valley village of Bargagli celebrates its patroness Nostra Signora Assunta over three festive August days with a patronal mass, procession and community sagra, recognised in the official 2026 Authentic Ligurian Events calendar."
Festa Patronale di Nostra Signora Assunta
"Perched above the Golfo Paradiso, the hamlet of Ruta celebrates its beloved focaccette, the small fried-dough pockets stuffed with stracchino cheese, at an August village festa that draws families up from the Camogli coast for an evening of golden bites and live music."
Sagra delle Focaccette
"Camogli's fishermen's borough gathers on the historic beach for its beloved San Rocco night, with confraternity procession, bancarelle, live music and a great bonfire blazing on the shingle in honour of the plague saint."
Festa di San Rocco
"A 50-year-old eco-minded sagra in the UNESCO-candidated medieval walled borgata of Finalborgo, dedicated to stuffed aubergines as the signature summer vegetable of the Finale Ligure hinterland, with emphasis on zero-kilometre local produce."
Ecosagra delle Melanzane Ripiene
"A four-day medieval living-history re-enactment that transforms the perfectly preserved walled borough of Finalborgo into a 15th-century scene, with costumed parades, artisan markets, falconry and evening spectacles."
Viaggio nel Medioevo
"A long-established sagra with over fifty years of tradition in a tiny mountain village above Sanremo, celebrating the frandura, a thick chickpea and potato tart that is one of the rarest surviving dishes of the Ligurian high hinterland."
Frandura
"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
"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
"The Arab-Norman hilltop town of Salemi celebrates its signature handmade pasta, the busiata, each August with live cookery, local wine, and the rich flavours of western Sicily's wheat-growing heartland."
Sagra della Busiata
"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