Featured Culinary Events

Sep 1, 2010 - Other - Tuscany

Montalcino Sagra del Tordo - Festival of the Thrush - last weekend of October

The Sagra del Tordo (feast of the Thrush) festival takes place on the last weekend of October with drums, trumpets, costume parade etc on Saturday, followed by a day-long feast in Montalcino castle on Sunday. This feast of the thrush is open to the public and a good range of food, including roast thrushes needless to say, plus the excellent local wines are available. During the morning, there is another costume parade, and celebratory lunches are held in the four quartieri of Montalcino - Pianello, Travaglio, Ruga and Borghetto. Similar feasts are held in the evening. A limited number of visitors can book for these feasts - ask your host if you are staying in town. The main parade takes place in the afternoon, leading to the archery field, and is followed by the longbow tournament in which two archers from each quartiere compete. Tickets are required for the competition which a major annual event for the citizens of Montalcino. Unusually for Tuscany, the competition is for long bowmen although there are plenty of crossbows in evidence during the parades. Bus loads of tourists, mainly Italian, arrive on Sunday so if you plan to participate, arrive early or face a long uphill walk from where you park. Don't miss it - la Sagra del Tordo is not only about thrushes!

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Sep 9, 2010 - Other

Great Culinary Event of food and wine: over 40 pro-loco of Asti province offering their specialties, accompanied by wines from Asti DOC From Saturdays at 7 pm to Sunday evening, in Piazza del Palio, a large outdoor restaurant where thousands and thousands of people can sit in an old country village. Dust off recipe books, written and oral, for generations of peasant housewives, a big menu i s proposed: all the assets of the poor and middle-class Monferrato's food, cooked with ingredients carefully selected and typically local. At the Festival of Festivalsyou can choice over eighty different dishes, desserts, salty, dry and wet, all rich in flavor and some unusual, such as "finanziera", barbera rice, polenta with wild boar stew, ravioli with rabbit meat, bleak fried, flour (in dialect from Asti belecauda).

ASTIgiando Chiara
Asti
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Sep 30, 2010 - Red

Wine Festivals in various towns - September

Villa La Rogaia
Passignano
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Dec 4, 2010 - Red

“Cefalicchio is charming every day of the year. That’s why you will not find low and high seasons in what follows, but simply our best offers throughout the year. A simpler and easier way to plan your holidays.”

Livio Colapinto
Canosa di Puglia
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