Festautunno
The small Monte Amiata village of Castell'Azzara marks Halloween with a free outdoor Autumn Festival of craft markets, street food, roving street bands and a fireworks finale that lights up the wooded hilltop.
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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 rare public festivity on the lagoon island of Torcello, one of the most ancient and sparsely inhabited islands of the Venetian lagoon, celebrating the Assumption with home-cooked Venetian island dishes and communal tables."
Festa dell'Assunta
"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
"Tiny Premilcuore, one of Romagna's most unspoilt medieval villages on the edge of the Casentino forests, holds its centuries-old Ferragosto fair with local produce, crafts and mountain foods on Italy's great mid-August holiday."
Fiera di Ferragosto
"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 ten-day patronal sagra in the Bassa Friulana that has grown over four decades into one of the region's most anticipated late-summer community festivals."
44^ Sagra di Sant'Agostino
"Omegna's historic eleven-day patron-saint festival, now in its 123rd edition, fills the town at the tip of Lake Orta with processions, shows, music and local food across the full run of summer evenings."
Festa di San Vito