Gran Paradiso Film Festival
Now in its 29th edition, this mountain film festival spreads across Gran Paradiso villages including Cogne, Aymavilles and Rhemes, screening nature and adventure films outdoors amid some of Italy's finest alpine scenery.
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"In the tiny Valpelline commune of Oyace, this Ferragosto-weekend celebration honours the summer-pasture Fontina DOP with tastings, cheese-making demonstrations and the communal atmosphere of a working alpine village at the height of the dairy season."
Festa della Fontina d'alpeggio - Oyace
"On Ferragosto, the ArtEtroubles sculpture school lines the lanes of this open-air museum village with artisans and woodcarvers exhibiting alongside the permanent outdoor artworks of the borgo medievale."
Mercatino dell'artigianato di tradizione, Étroubles
"Held annually since 1984 on the Via Francigena pilgrim route, this one-night living-history event fills the medieval streets of Etroubles with fontina-making, wheat-threshing, washerwomen, smugglers and morra players re-enacting the village's old winter veillà traditions."
Veillà d'Etroubles
"Three days in the small hillside commune of Gignod devoted entirely to teteun, the distinctively spiced and cured cow's udder salume unique to this corner of the Aosta Valley."
Sagra Gastronomica del Teteun
"Named in the Valdostan dialect for a market of odds and ends, this charming annual flea market and antiques fair fills the historic centre of Morgex with old skis, vintage furniture, gerle baskets and bric-a-brac each summer after mid-August."
Martciä di Barradzüe
"On a sunny Sunday in the Cervino valley village of Torgnon, producers and pastry makers fill Piazza Frutaz with traditional Valdostan sweets and local wines for a beloved late-summer market."
Fiera dei Dolci Valdostani
"Paolo Fresu's internationally celebrated jazz festival, founded in his home village of Berchidda, transforms vineyards, piazzas and rural corners of the Gallura hills into intimate open-air stages each August."
Time in Jazz
"Now in its 16th year, this theatre festival stages performances on and around the water at Arona on Lake Maggiore, blending outdoor drama with the lakeside setting in a programme beloved by locals and visitors alike."
Il Teatro sull'Acqua
"For three candlelit evenings the ancient stone hamlet of Lundo near Comano Terme switches off all electric light, with over fifty figurants and professional theatrical performances including a theatrical Nativity, videomapping and a prize-winning marionette company."
Shalom, Pace: Presepe Vivente nel Borgo di Lundo
"This Sienese hill village's open-air nativity spectacle deploys over 300 figurants through every corner of the historic borgo, from a gladiatorial arena and Roman market to the manger itself, making it one of central Tuscany's grandest Christmas events."
Praesepium di Casole d'Elsa
"A festival of music composed for the cinema held on the island of San Pietro, using the Ligurian-dialect village of Carloforte as an atmospheric open-air backdrop for film scores and live performances."
Creuza de Mà
"A twelve-edition mountain culture festival threading cinema, guided trekking, author talks and local food tastings across the high-altitude village of Castel del Monte, with transhumance and pastoral heritage as the 2026 theme."
Festival del Gran Sasso