Sagra della gnoccata

"In one of Molise's three Croatian-heritage villages, descendants of 15th-century Dalmatian settlers celebrate the autumn maize harvest with a sagra that blends Molisan peasant food with the unique Na Nasciu dialect culture of Acquaviva Collecroce."

Sagra del Granone

"Over two August evenings this remote Molise village re-enacts the story of an Angevin queen with medieval games, a torchlit costumed parade of nobles and knights, and a spectacular light-and-sound burning of the ancient tower."

Rievocazione Storica di Colletorto

"Now in its 57th edition, this charming Frentani hill village festival revives the old contadino custom of communal maize-husking, then serves 1,500 corn cobs roasted and boiled in the piazza alongside traditional sausages and village wine."

Sagra delle Tolle

"At one of Italy's highest inhabited villages, Capracotta serves its signature pezzata, a slow-cooked sheep stew in the transhumance tradition, to summer visitors who flock to this Apennine plateau for cool air and authentic mountain food."

Sagra della pezzata

"Frosolone, renowned as the knife-making capital of southern Italy, also celebrates its pastoral dairy heritage each summer with a festival dedicated to stretched-curd caciocavallo and scamorza cheeses made in the Molise uplands."

Sagra del caciocavallo e della scamorza

"This Sannio hill village keeps alive the cucina povera tradition of tripe cookery over a midsummer weekend, with communal outdoor dining that draws locals from across the Isernia valleys."

Sagra della trippa

"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