Time in Jazz
Paolo Fresu's internationally celebrated jazz festival, founded in his home village of Berchidda, transforms vineyards, piazzas and rural corners of the Gallura hills into intimate open-air stages each August.
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"One of Sardinia's lesser-known candelieri traditions, in which huge votive wooden candlesticks are carried in procession through the streets of mining-heritage Iglesias in honour of the Assumption, echoing the five-century vow made against the plague."
Festa di Sancta Maria di Mezo di Gosto
"Young men dressed in white habits run barefoot through the streets of Cabras carrying the statue of San Salvatore to his rural sanctuary, in a breathless dawn race that re-enacts a 17th-century rescue from Moorish raiders."
Corsa degli Scalzi
"Bitti, home of the polyphonic cantu a tenore tradition, opens its ancient stone courtyards to visitors for the first weekend of the Autunno in Barbagia circuit, showcasing weaving, bread-making, local cheeses and live tenore singing."
Autunno in Barbagia - Cortes Apertas
"Held every last Sunday of October in the mountain village of Aritzo, this celebrated chestnut festival draws crowds to taste roasted chestnuts and hazelnuts from the Barbagia hills, with folk exhibits and local craft stalls."
Sagra delle Castagne
"In this small Barbagia village, the pre-Christian Mamuthones in heavy black sheepskins and carved wooden masks shuffle in solemn file while the white-masked Issohadores lasso young women from the crowd, enacting one of the most ancient and mysterious carnival rituals in the Mediterranean world."
Carnevale Storico di Mamoiada
"In this remote Barbagia village, farmers in sheepskins wearing hand-carved wild-pear wooden masks play out the ancient struggle between man and beast: the bell-laden Boes (oxen) rebel against the Merdules (their keepers), while Sa Filonzana, the only female carnival figure in Sardinia, threatens to snip the thread of life."
Carnevale di Ottana - Boes e Merdules
"Now in its 16th year, this theatre festival stages performances on and around the water at Arona on Lake Maggiore, blending outdoor drama with the lakeside setting in a programme beloved by locals and visitors alike."
Il Teatro sull'Acqua
"For three candlelit evenings the ancient stone hamlet of Lundo near Comano Terme switches off all electric light, with over fifty figurants and professional theatrical performances including a theatrical Nativity, videomapping and a prize-winning marionette company."
Shalom, Pace: Presepe Vivente nel Borgo di Lundo
"This Sienese hill village's open-air nativity spectacle deploys over 300 figurants through every corner of the historic borgo, from a gladiatorial arena and Roman market to the manger itself, making it one of central Tuscany's grandest Christmas events."
Praesepium di Casole d'Elsa
"Now in its 29th edition, this mountain film festival spreads across Gran Paradiso villages including Cogne, Aymavilles and Rhemes, screening nature and adventure films outdoors amid some of Italy's finest alpine scenery."
Gran Paradiso Film Festival
"A twelve-edition mountain culture festival threading cinema, guided trekking, author talks and local food tastings across the high-altitude village of Castel del Monte, with transhumance and pastoral heritage as the 2026 theme."
Festival del Gran Sasso