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
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7 towns
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18 towns
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10 towns
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11 towns
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9 towns
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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
Fonni
Province: Nuoro
The highest village in Sardinia at 1,000 meters on the Gennargentu, with ski lifts climbing above the town and the Madonna dei Martiri sanctuary at its edge.
Lerici
Province: La Spezia
A fishing harbour under a Pisan-Genoese castle, with the frazione of Tellaro hanging over the rocks at the commune's southern edge.
Posada
Province: Nuoro
The capital of the Baronia, a 3,000-person village on a 71-meter rock with a 13th-century tower over the valley.
Sadali
Province: Sud Sardegna
A Barbagia di Seulo borgo at 750 meters with the only waterfall in Sardegna that drops through the inhabited centre.
Cassano delle Murge
Province: Bari
A Murge foothills town at 341 meters at the gate of the Alta Murgia park, with the 1,300-hectare Foresta Mercadante mostly inside its territory.