Sagra dei Crotti
Founded in 1965, this unique Valchiavenna festival opens the ancient stone crotti, natural rock-cooled cellars carved into the boulders above the town, for the Andèm a Cròt tasting trail through Chiavenna's alleys, featuring bresaola, gnocchetti, torta fioretto and local wine.
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"Born in the 1980s in this Valsassina valley village near Lake Como, this three-day festival brings together over 30 local producers, historic dairies and culinary artisans celebrating the breadth of Lombard and valley food traditions with music and open-air tastings."
Sagra delle Sagre
"A five-day celebration anchored in the Stelvio National Park, bringing together mountain guides, naturalists, local producers and community storytelling in the historic alpine town of Bormio at the foot of the famous pass."
Parco in Festa
"The Marone branch of the National Alpine Association hosts three evenings of traditional food, live mountain music and community conviviality at the lakeside Villa Vismara on Lake Iseo."
Festa Alpina
"The tiny hillside village of Brezzo di Bedero above Lake Maggiore stages its living nativity on Christmas Eve at 21.30 and again on Epiphany afternoon, framing the Nativity against one of Lombardy's most scenic lake panoramas."
Presepe Vivente di Brezzo di Bedero
"Since 2001, the medieval walled village of Zavattarello in Oltrepo Pavese has staged its living nativity inside the genuine 13th-century lanes of the Su di Dentro quarter, with functional ancient tools from the village museum and interactive participation invited from all visitors."
Presepe Vivente nel Borgo Antico di Zavattarello
"Over 300 costumed figurants transform a 5,000 sq metre parish sports ground into a silent rural Bethlehem, with bakers, blacksmiths, weavers and fishermen at work before the Nativity sequence unfolds at dusk."
Notte di Luce, Presepe Vivente di San Biagio
"A beloved mountain-village summer institution at the foot of Monte Melanico, where each of 14 consecutive weekends spotlights a different Caserta speciality from arrosticini to caciocavallo impiccato, paired with the local Casavecchia DOC wine."
Sagre di Liberi, Arrosticini e Caciocavallo Impiccato
"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
"Pollina is one of the last places in Europe where manna is still harvested from ancient ash trees by incision, and its August sagra celebrates this extraordinary and almost-forgotten Sicilian sweetener with tastings and artisan demonstrations."
Sagra della Manna
"In Sicily's only village built partly inside a sandstone cliff, the sagra del tortone celebrates a uniquely local baked cheese pasta cake at the foot of the famous Sperlinga castle, where Norman defectors once held out for a year after the Sicilian Vespers."
Sagra del Tortone
"The Arab-Norman hilltop town of Salemi celebrates its signature handmade pasta, the busiata, each August with live cookery, local wine, and the rich flavours of western Sicily's wheat-growing heartland."
Sagra della Busiata
"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