With events
Towns with something that comes back every year
346 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
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
6 towns
Tuscany
50 towns
Umbria
25 towns
Veneto
8 towns
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From across Italy
Five towns to begin with
Castiglion Fiorentino
Province: Arezzo
A walled hill town at 342 meters between Arezzo and Cortona, where Etruscan walls support the medieval Cassero.
Savoca
Province: Messina
A hilltop borgo at 300 meters above the Ionian, its ridge lined with stepped lanes and balconied stone houses.
Magione
Province: Perugia
A hill town east of Trasimeno built around a medieval Order's fortified base.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento
A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Castelvecchio di Rocca Barbena
Province: Savona
A stone village of 130 residents at 420 meters, built into the southern foot of a 1,142-meter limestone outcrop.