Palio di Canaro
A costumed contrada palio in this small Polesine village near Rovigo, with a medieval procession through the streets and competitive games between four historic families dating to the town's medieval lords.
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"A rare public festivity on the lagoon island of Torcello, one of the most ancient and sparsely inhabited islands of the Venetian lagoon, celebrating the Assumption with home-cooked Venetian island dishes and communal tables."
Festa dell'Assunta
"A summer lakeside wine sagra in the small Garda village famous for its Bardolino DOC, with lakefront stands, local producers and an atmosphere that is genuinely village-scale."
Sagra di Bardolino
"The lakeside wine village of Bardolino on Lake Garda celebrates its celebrated DOC Bardolino grape harvest in late August with open-air tastings, folk music, and an atmosphere that has anchored this village festa in the local calendar for generations."
Festa dell'Uva, Bardolino
"An unhurried multi-weekend sagra in this remote Polesine hamlet near the Po, offering authentic river-plain cooking and the convivial warmth of a community that rarely sees outside visitors."
Sagra di Runzi
"A one-day village sagra in the heart of Valpolicella wine country, where Amarone and Ripasso grapes ripen on terraced hillsides and the local community toasts the harvest season."
Sagra di Negrar di Valpolicella
"Nine contrade of Monselice compete across three September Sundays in chess, archery, drum-tenzoni and a horseback quintana beneath the medieval Rocca in a pageant evoking the 1242 siege of Frederick II."
Giostra della Rocca
"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