Il Teatro sull'Acqua
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.
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"Lou Dalfin's beloved Ferragosto open-air concert on the high-mountain forecourt of the ancient Santuario di San Magno, drawing up to 3,000 people each year for traditional Occitan music at over 1,700 metres in Valle Grana."
Concerto Occitano di Ferragosto, Lou Dalfin al Santuario di San Magno
"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
"A 72-year-old celebration of the Tonda Gentile delle Langhe hazelnut in its Alta Langa birthplace, filling Cortemilia's medieval streets with producers, tastings of torta di nocciole and praline, concerts, and the Nocciola d'Oro award."
Fiera Nazionale della Nocciola
"This two-weekend food festival on the shores of Lake Maggiore at Baveno brings together the local produce, wines and flavours of the Verbano district in a lakeside celebration of regional gastronomy."
Sapori di Lago
"A four-day riverside sagra in the Po-plain village of Villastellone celebrating the patron saint Bartholomew with traditional river-fish dishes, music and local enogastronomic stands."
San Bartolomeo - Sagra del Pesce
"Now in its 77th edition, this nationally famous ten-day fair spreads across six historic piazze in Carmagnola to celebrate the celebrated local sweet pepper with tasting stands, cooking contests, and nightly live concerts."
Fiera Nazionale del Peperone di Carmagnola
"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
"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
"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."
Gran Paradiso Film Festival
"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