With events
Towns with something that comes back every year
348 towns
Sagre, patronal feste, historical re-enactments and markets. We give the month and never the date, because a date on a page like this rots and a month does not. Check with the town before you travel.
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Abruzzo
14 towns
Aosta Valley
7 towns
Apulia
18 towns
Basilicata
10 towns
Calabria
11 towns
Campania
9 towns
Emilia-Romagna
18 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
16 towns
Lazio
25 towns
Liguria
29 towns
Lombardy
8 towns
Marche
32 towns
Molise
5 towns
Piedmont
14 towns
Sardinia
15 towns
Sicily
27 towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
7 towns
Tuscany
50 towns
Umbria
25 towns
Veneto
8 towns
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Biccari
Province: Foggia
A Subappennino Dauno borgo at 450 meters under Monte Cornacchia, the highest peak in Puglia at 1,151 meters, with a Byzantine tower at its core.
Sirolo
Province: Ancona
A clifftop borgo at 125 meters, above the Due Sorelle sea stacks of the Adriatic.
Penne
Province: Pescara
The brick city at 438 meters between the Tavo and Fino, ancient capital of the Vestini, rebuilt after Allied bombing and awarded the Silver Medal of Civic Merit.
Palazzolo Acreide
Province: Siracusa
An 8,000-resident hilltop town on the Iblei plateau at 670m, rebuilt entirely in late Baroque after the 1693 earthquake and founded over the Greek Akrai colony in 664 BC, with a Greek theatre and a cluster of rock carvings unlike anything else nearby.
Verucchio
Province: Rimini
A spur over the lower Marecchia valley, cradle of the Villanovan civilization and birthplace of the Malatesta lordship of Romagna.