Towns with a medieval festival
A recurring historical re-enactment, in costume, on a fixed date.
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The best medieval festivals in UmbriaUmbria stages some of the most committed historical re-enactments in Italy, in towns that spend the rest of the year quiet. These are the ones where the whole comune takes part, and where the setting is the original.
The best hidden towns with a medieval festival in the province of SienaTowns across the province of Siena stage recurring costumed re-enactments, from crossbow contests inside travertine walls to summer flag-throwing in Val d'Orcia squares. Where to go for medieval pageantry without the crush of the Palio.
The 7 best towns with a medieval festival in MarcheMarche keeps its medieval calendar alive with quintains, crossbow tournaments and flag-throwing in travertine squares, most of it between late spring and high summer. These are the towns where the costumes come out of the chest and the whole commune turns up.
The best hidden wine towns with a medieval festival in ToscanaTuscan wine towns that also keep a medieval calendar: crossbow contests, horse races between contrade, drummers in the piazza, and cellars of Sangiovese, Vernaccia and Morellino under the same stone streets. Best in late spring and early autumn, when the festivals fall and the vineyards are working.
The prettiest villages with a medieval festival within 90 minutes of PerugiaUmbrian and border-Tuscan villages built of pink limestone and river brick, where the summer calendar turns on crossbow contests, torchlit processions and quarter-against-quarter races, and the local table runs to torta al testo, goose ragù and lentils from the high plains.