Sagra del Fungo Porcino
In the Apennine village of Cassinelle on the Alessandria hills, two autumn evenings of porcini mushroom specialities - tagliatelle, fritto, polenta and arrosto - celebrate the local forest harvest.
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"Lou Dalfin's beloved Ferragosto open-air concert on the high-mountain forecourt of the ancient Santuario di San Magno, drawing up to 3,000 people each year for traditional Occitan music at over 1,700 metres in Valle Grana."
Concerto Occitano di Ferragosto, Lou Dalfin al Santuario di San Magno
"Omegna's historic eleven-day patron-saint festival, now in its 123rd edition, fills the town at the tip of Lake Orta with processions, shows, music and local food across the full run of summer evenings."
Festa di San Vito
"A 72-year-old celebration of the Tonda Gentile delle Langhe hazelnut in its Alta Langa birthplace, filling Cortemilia's medieval streets with producers, tastings of torta di nocciole and praline, concerts, and the Nocciola d'Oro award."
Fiera Nazionale della Nocciola
"This two-weekend food festival on the shores of Lake Maggiore at Baveno brings together the local produce, wines and flavours of the Verbano district in a lakeside celebration of regional gastronomy."
Sapori di Lago
"A four-day riverside sagra in the Po-plain village of Villastellone celebrating the patron saint Bartholomew with traditional river-fish dishes, music and local enogastronomic stands."
San Bartolomeo - Sagra del Pesce
"Now in its 77th edition, this nationally famous ten-day fair spreads across six historic piazze in Carmagnola to celebrate the celebrated local sweet pepper with tasting stands, cooking contests, and nightly live concerts."
Fiera Nazionale del Peperone di Carmagnola
"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