Keschtnriggl, Giornate della Castagna
Along the famous Keschtnweg chestnut trail of the Isarco Valley, this Alto Adige October celebration combines guided walks through the culturally significant ancient chestnut groves on the valley slopes with a village chestnut market, traditional Tyrolean music and restaurants serving full chestnut-centred menus.
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"Mounted knights from across Europe gather at the foot of Castel Coira in the Val Venosta for three days of jousting, lance-breaking and horsemanship contests set against an Alpine medieval backdrop."
Giochi Medievali di Venosta
"Held every year on the fixed feast of St Bartholomew at the high Corno del Renon plateau, this long-standing alpine pasture festival includes the celebrated return of the Haflinger horses and traditional farming customs unique to the Renon upland community."
Festa d'Alpeggio di San Bartolomeo
"In the vine-wrapped Trentino village of Avio, the vendemmia kickoff combines medieval music, guided tastings with valley wineries, craft markets, cultural site tours, and a national Palio delle Botti barrel-rolling competition between the Cities of Wine."
Uva e dintorni
"An UNESCO-recognised intangible heritage custom in which shepherds return hundreds of sheep via a gruelling 44-kilometre route across snowfields and the Austrian border into Senales valley, with visitors able to walk alongside the flocks and join a traditional celebration with music and local food on arrival."
Schafabtrieb Transhumanz Schnalstal
"On the Saturday before Erntedank, roughly 250 flower-crowned cows descend from Europe's largest high-altitude meadow accompanied by alphorn players and whip-crackers, processing from Compatsch across the Seiser Alm plateau and down into Kastelruth village."
Almabtrieb von der Seiser Alm
"Bells, Schuhplattler dancers, Goaslkrocha whip-crackers and processional floats accompany decorated cows back into the Pustertal village of Terento, with stalls offering local Tirschtlan pastries, barley soup, and farmhouse honey from the surrounding farms."
Rientro dall'Alpeggio
"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 summer sagra dedicated to pinsa, the traditional Friulian flatbread with sweet and savoury toppings, celebrated in this village on the edge of Udine's agricultural plain."
Sagra della Pinsa
"Pollina is one of the last places in Europe where manna is still harvested from ancient ash trees by incision, and its August sagra celebrates this extraordinary and almost-forgotten Sicilian sweetener with tastings and artisan demonstrations."
Sagra della Manna
"In Sicily's only village built partly inside a sandstone cliff, the sagra del tortone celebrates a uniquely local baked cheese pasta cake at the foot of the famous Sperlinga castle, where Norman defectors once held out for a year after the Sicilian Vespers."
Sagra del Tortone
"The Arab-Norman hilltop town of Salemi celebrates its signature handmade pasta, the busiata, each August with live cookery, local wine, and the rich flavours of western Sicily's wheat-growing heartland."
Sagra della Busiata
"A long-established goose festival in the medieval hill village of Fagagna, celebrating the prized oca in pinzimonio and other traditional Friulian preparations over more than two weeks."
Sagra dell'Oca