Infiorata del Corpus Domini di Cusano Mutri

"A beloved mountain-village summer institution at the foot of Monte Melanico, where each of 14 consecutive weekends spotlights a different Caserta speciality from arrosticini to caciocavallo impiccato, paired with the local Casavecchia DOC wine."

Sagre di Liberi, Arrosticini e Caciocavallo Impiccato

"A proud Sannio hill-village festival celebrating two local identity foods in one: the fusillo al ferretto, hand-spun pasta pulled on an iron rod, paired with the celebrated red salsiccia di Castelpoto, a product unique to this small community."

Sagra del Fusillo al Ferretto

"One of the Cilento's most celebrated and long-running sagre, organised by Pro Loco Felitto in a hilltop medieval village, showcasing the fusillo felittese, a hand-spun pasta wound round a knitting needle that is a Slow Food Presidium."

Festa del Fusillo Felittese

"Now in its 49th edition, this eleven-day festival in the gorge village of Felitto is the flagship celebration of the fusillo felittese, a thick hand-spun pasta unique to this Cilento valley, and one of the most visited village sagre in Campania."

Sagra del Fusillo Felittese

"Now in its 46th edition and rooted in a tradition said to date to 16th-century Spanish rule, this six-night Picentini hills festival serves the town's famous braciola, meat rolled with wire, slow-cooked in sugo, in the winding streets of Rovella's centro storico."

Sagra della Braciola

"A true contrada sagra in the hamlet of Ferrarisi near Ponte, honouring the ammugliatiello, a traditional offal roll roasted over charcoal that represents the ancient pastoral kitchen of the Sannio hills at its most uncompromising."

Sagra dell'Ammugliatiello

"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