Mercatino dell'artigianato di tradizione, Étroubles

"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

"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

"Now in its 28th edition, this international traditional-music festival plants four days of concerts, dance classes and artisan instrument-making demonstrations in the shadow of Fenis Castle, with free afternoon sessions and evening ticketed shows exploring this year's theme of Alpine Franco-Swiss-Italian musical connections."

ETETRAD - Festival internazionale delle nuove musiche Trad

"On the slopes of the Monti Sibillini near the legendary Monte Sibilla, this 47th-edition market-sagra brings together local chestnut growers, honey producers, woodworkers and folk musicians in a mountain village that feels genuinely suspended between forest and sky in late October."

Sagra Mercato della Castagna di Montemonaco

"Above the Capuchin Gardens in Lana di Sopra, 20 stalls of local craftspeople gather for this Advent market themed on the Grimm fairy tale of the Star Money girl, with a Christmas Post Box, extended hours on New Year's Eve, and a children's story competition running throughout the season."

Sterntaler Weihnachtsmarkt Lana

"Held across Advent weekends in the unspoilt Sarntal Valley, this market of 20 handcrafted stalls is renowned for its lack of kitsch and abundance of genuine Sarner specialities including quill-embroidered goods, Sarner Striezl bread with speck, and the ancient Klöckeln custom on Thursday evenings."

Alpenadvent Sarntal

"High in the Val Gardena at 1,563 m and encircled by the Sella group and the Dolomites, Wolkenstein's Advent market famously features 13 festively decorated red gondola cabins circling above the mountain village throughout the season, with an annual snow-sculpture competition in late December."

Mountain Christmas Wolkenstein

"For over 15 years the pedestrian zone of the main village in the western Val Venosta has transformed each Advent weekend into a Christmas market celebrating local artisans, producers and hobby craftspeople, enlivened by the traditional hunting-horn blowers of Silandro."

Christkindlmarkt Silandro - Schlanders

"A Christmas market unlike any other in the Alps: stalls line the stations of the historic narrow-gauge Renon Railway on the plateau above Bolzano, with the Renon Farmers' Advent in Collalbo on 8 December featuring ventriloquist shows, llamas and Swiss pine products."

Rittner Christbahnl - Adventsmarkt Collalbo und Soprabolzano