Sagra del Marrone Biondo
A single-day autumn village sagra in the Bolognese Apennines dedicated to the local blonde chestnut, held in the same small hill town that later in November celebrates its Festa di San Martino.
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"Tiny Premilcuore, one of Romagna's most unspoilt medieval villages on the edge of the Casentino forests, holds its centuries-old Ferragosto fair with local produce, crafts and mountain foods on Italy's great mid-August holiday."
Fiera di Ferragosto
"In its 37th edition and recognised by the Consorzio Europeo Rievocazioni Storiche, this four-day medieval pageant in walled hilltop Mondaino commemorates the 1459 peace between Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta, with contrada competitions, a crossbow tournament and over 100 artisan stalls."
Palio de lo Daino
"A traditional two-day medieval reenactment in this small Bologna Apennine comune, featuring a historic market, demonstrations of ancient crafts and trades, costumed processions, live music and street food."
Rievocazione medievale di Castel di Casio
"This fraction of Mirandola in the Modena plain has dedicated an entire sagra to its locally grown watermelon, celebrating a quintessential summer crop with sweet-focused stalls and festive community spirit."
Sagra del Cocomero di San Martino Spino
"Pavullo nel Frignano's patronal fair of San Bartolomeo is a long-established late-summer market in the Modenese Apennines, drawing the surrounding mountain communities together for food, goods and festive celebration."
Fiera di San Bartolomeo
"San Secondo Parmense's annual fiera celebrates its two most prized products: the fortanina local white wine and the slow-cooked spalla cotta, a shoulder of pork unique to this small Po plain comune."
Fiera della Fortanina e della Spalla di San Secondo
"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