Sagra dell'Olio Evo di Montemurro
A Pro Loco evening trail through the ancient olive-oil village of Montemurro opens historic oil-presses to visitors and celebrates the exceptional local extra-virgin olive oil with tastings, music, and comedy.
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"One of southern Italy's most celebrated village food festivals, now in its 44th edition, honouring Sarconi's IGP-protected borlotti beans through 13 gastronomic stands, showcooking with Michelin-starred chefs and live music in a hilltop Lucanian village."
Sagra del Fagiolo IGP di Sarconi
"Barile's atmospheric rock-cut cave cellars, chosen by Pasolini as a film set in 1964, come alive each August for this Aglianico del Vulture wine festival with street art, folk music, pasta workshops and tastings in a UNESCO-candidate landscape."
Cantinando Wine & Art
"The narrow alleyways of this hillside Norman-origin village above Lago di Monte Cotugno are transformed into a saffron-red corridor celebrating the Senise dried pepper, the prized local peperone crusco, with tastings, stalls, and traditional Lucanian recipes."
U Strittul ru Zafaran
"A dedicated weekend in the Vulture uplands celebrates the DOP-protected Filiano pecorino, one of Basilicata's finest aged sheep's cheeses, with live curd-making demonstrations, tastings, and local dairy stalls."
Sagra del Pecorino di Filiano DOP e dei Prodotti Lattiero-Caseari
"Barile's long-running gastronomic festival in the Vulture wine country celebrates Aglianico del Vulture DOC wine alongside typical Lucanian produce, taking its name from the Albanian-origin Arbëreshe phrase meaning 'cut and eat', reflecting the village's unique Arbereshe cultural heritage."
Tumact me tulez - Festival dell'Aglianico e dei Prodotti Tipici
"Hosted in the birthplace of Horace at the Castello del Balzo, this itinerant three-day festival showcases Aglianico del Vulture DOCG alongside local Lucanian foods, seminars and wine labs in the volcanic Vulture hills."
Aglianica Wine Festival
"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