With events
Towns with something that comes back every year
268 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
13 towns
Aosta Valley
4 towns
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13 towns
Basilicata
8 towns
Calabria
9 towns
Campania
6 towns
Emilia-Romagna
13 towns
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
14 towns
Lazio
20 towns
Liguria
21 towns
Lombardy
7 towns
Marche
26 towns
Molise
5 towns
Piedmont
11 towns
Sardinia
12 towns
Sicily
18 towns
Trentino-South Tyrol
5 towns
Tuscany
38 towns
Umbria
20 towns
Veneto
5 towns
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Cicala
Province: Catanzaro
A village of 887 people at 829 meters, founded in 1616 by farmers asking for land.
Fossombrone
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
An inland Marchigiano town on the Metauro river, layered over a Roman colony with a Renaissance ducal court rising above it.
Bagnoli del Trigno
Province: Isernia
The 'Pearl of Molise', a 637-resident borgo built into and around a massive limestone outcrop above the Trigno valley, with a medieval castle rebuilt on its summit.
Varenna
Province: Lecco
A fishing village founded in 769 on the Lecco arm of Lake Como, with a steep grid of streets falling into the water.
Rocca di Botte
Province: L'Aquila
At 750 meters on the Carseolani slopes between Abruzzo and Lazio, the birthplace of an eleventh-century hermit and a fief of the Colonna.