Festa Medioevale
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.
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"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 hill commune of Drapia, in the Vibonese hinterland above the Costa degli Dei, celebrates its patron saints Cosma and Damiano over three days at the end of September with a procession, luminarie and band music that close out the Calabrian patron-feast season."
Festa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano
"One of Italy's most beautiful villages, Montalbano Elicona dresses its medieval streets in Aragonese costume each August for a multi-day historical festival centred on the 14th-century royal castle of Frederick II of Aragon."
Feste Aragonesi
"Randazzo, a remarkably intact medieval town built entirely from black Etna lava stone, stages its annual historical festival with costumed processions and period markets through streets that survived every Etna eruption for 700 years."
Festa Medievale
"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
"A five-day celebration anchored in the Stelvio National Park, bringing together mountain guides, naturalists, local producers and community storytelling in the historic alpine town of Bormio at the foot of the famous pass."
Parco in Festa
"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
"Bitti, home of the polyphonic cantu a tenore tradition, opens its ancient stone courtyards to visitors for the first weekend of the Autunno in Barbagia circuit, showcasing weaving, bread-making, local cheeses and live tenore singing."
Autunno in Barbagia - Cortes Apertas