Presepe Vivente di Poli
In this small Prenestini hill village east of Rome, costumed figurants bearing torches transform its narrow lanes into a living Bethlehem on Santo Stefano afternoon, with proceeds supporting a children's charity in Brazil.
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"Held since 1970 in the magnificent octagonal piazza of this small Bolsena lakeside village, this Ferragosto-week sagra serves hand-made gnocchi under 250-table gazebos, celebrating the patron San Lorenzo and the local stoppia bean harvest of the Tuscia."
Sagra degli Gnocchi di San Lorenzo Nuovo
"Held in a tiny Salto valley hamlet at 900 metres amid beech and chestnut woodland, this porcini mushroom sagra is as close as Italy gets to a forest-to-table festa in a genuinely remote mountain setting."
Sagra del Fungo Porcino
"Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026, this wine and food festival set in Tarquinia's UNESCO-listed Etruscan town centre brings together the best of northern Lazio viticulture in a spectacular archaeological setting."
DiVino Etrusco
"A hand-rolled pasta sagra in one of Lazio's smallest riverside villages, perched above the Tiber just north of Rome, where the local pro loco serves fresh fettuccine with traditional Sabina ragus to communal tables under the summer sky."
Sagra delle Fettuccine
"Over 70 years old and one of the Castelli Romani's most beloved autumn traditions, this three-day porchetta festival in a compact hilltop town fills the fraschette with rosemary-and-garlic-scented roast pork and the streets with music and costume parades."
Sagra della Porchetta di Ariccia
"In its 43rd edition, this deeply rooted Tuscia festival fills the tufa-rock cellars and medieval lanes of a Cimini hill village with caldarroste, the Palio degli Asini e delle Botti, sbandieratori, and free Sunday guided walks through centuries-old chestnut groves at 500-700 metres."
Giornate della Castagna di Canepina
"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