Le Barboires - Carnevale di Chiaves
The Barboires are the traditional masked questua figures of Chiaves, a tiny Valli di Lanzo hamlet, who tour the village at Carnevale time in elaborately costumed procession as part of one of Piedmont's most intact alpine folk customs.
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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
"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