Rievocazione storica della Macia

"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

"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

"The most beloved frico festival in Friuli, held in the hamlet of Carpacco since 1982, where the iconic cheese-and-potato pancake is cooked fresh to order each evening around the village square."

43^ Sagre dal Frico

"Born in 1982 to fund the village dairy, this beloved Ferragosto sagra in the hamlet of Carpacco cooks frico, the golden cheese-and-potato disc of Friulian tradition, live at the pan for thousands of visitors across six summer evenings."

Sagre dal Frico di Carpacco

"In the tiny alpine hamlet of Lateis above Sauris, this intimate two-day festival brings together the finest malga cheeses and freshly harvested mountain berries from local farms, offering a rare taste of high-altitude Carnic agri-culture."

Festa del Formaggio di Malga e dei Piccoli Frutti

"A ten-day patronal sagra in the Bassa Friulana that has grown over four decades into one of the region's most anticipated late-summer community festivals."

44^ Sagra di Sant'Agostino

"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