Sagra della 'Nduja di Spilinga
Dating to 1975 and now in its fiftieth edition, this one-night village festival in Spilinga's old-town streets is entirely devoted to 'nduja, the fiery spreadable sausage born here, with street stalls on Corso Garibaldi, papier-mâché giants Mata and Grifone parading the alleys, and a midnight tarantella closing the night.
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"Every August the small walled borgo of San Giorgio Morgeto in the Reggino Aspromonte hosts a medieval festival that unfolds through a long historical procession winding the principal streets of the village, with costumed guilds, artisan markets and period entertainments set against the backdrop of a Norman-era castle."
Festa Medioevale
"Each year on 14 and 15 August, fishermen's boats process through the sea below Tropea's cliff-top sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Isola in one of Calabria's most visually arresting religious customs."
Festa della Madonna Santa Maria dell'Isola e Processione a Mare
"On 17 August the small Vibonese village of Stefanaconi, set on the slopes above the Mesima valley, celebrates Calabrian artisan bread in all its forms, from the great round pitte to the dense frise, baked in wood-fired ovens and distributed through the village streets."
Sagra Calabrese del Pane
"Since 1578 pilgrims and emigrant returnees have converged on the tiny Monte Reventino borgo of Conflenti every last August weekend to venerate the Madonna della Quercia di Visora in the basilica built on the site of her apparition, filling the streets with processions, gastronomic stands and the bittersweet music of a community reunited."
Festeggiamenti della Madonna della Quercia di Visora
"Since 1578, the mountain village of Conflenti on Monte Reventino has gathered thousands of pilgrims and returning emigrants for the last weekend of August to venerate the Madonna della Quercia di Visora, with a solemn procession, traditional fiera, grispelle street food and band concerts beneath the Basilica Minore."
Festa della Madonna della Quercia di Visora
"Italy's most famous chilli festival turns a small Tyrrhenian mural-painted town fiery red for five days of competitive eating, capsaicin science talks, and tastings of nduja, sardella, and hundreds of peperoncino varieties."
Peperoncino 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