Festa di San Leoluca

"Every August the small walled borgo of San Giorgio Morgeto in the Reggino Aspromonte hosts a medieval festival that unfolds through a long historical procession winding the principal streets of the village, with costumed guilds, artisan markets and period entertainments set against the backdrop of a Norman-era castle."

Festa Medioevale

"Each year on 14 and 15 August, fishermen's boats process through the sea below Tropea's cliff-top sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Isola in one of Calabria's most visually arresting religious customs."

Festa della Madonna Santa Maria dell'Isola e Processione a Mare

"On 17 August the small Vibonese village of Stefanaconi, set on the slopes above the Mesima valley, celebrates Calabrian artisan bread in all its forms, from the great round pitte to the dense frise, baked in wood-fired ovens and distributed through the village streets."

Sagra Calabrese del Pane

"Since 1578 pilgrims and emigrant returnees have converged on the tiny Monte Reventino borgo of Conflenti every last August weekend to venerate the Madonna della Quercia di Visora in the basilica built on the site of her apparition, filling the streets with processions, gastronomic stands and the bittersweet music of a community reunited."

Festeggiamenti della Madonna della Quercia di Visora

"Since 1578, the mountain village of Conflenti on Monte Reventino has gathered thousands of pilgrims and returning emigrants for the last weekend of August to venerate the Madonna della Quercia di Visora, with a solemn procession, traditional fiera, grispelle street food and band concerts beneath the Basilica Minore."

Festa della Madonna della Quercia di Visora

"Italy's most famous chilli festival turns a small Tyrrhenian mural-painted town fiery red for five days of competitive eating, capsaicin science talks, and tastings of nduja, sardella, and hundreds of peperoncino varieties."

Peperoncino Festival

"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