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Events & festivals in Monferrato

What's on across Monferrato, from the hills around Asti and Nizza to Casale and Acqui Terme: village sagre, wine festivals, truffle fairs, patron-saint feasts, concerts and markets. Every listing has the dates, the town and, where the organisers publish one, the programme. Pro Loco events are often announced only a few weeks ahead, so we add them as they come in.

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Mercato settimanale di Acqui Terme

Tuesday and Friday mornings, about 08:00–13:00: stalls spread through Acqui's centre, from Piazza Italia and Corso Italia to Piazza M. Ferraris.

Mercato settimanale di Canelli

Tuesday and Friday mornings, 08:00–13:00: Canelli's market fills Piazza Gancia, Piazza Zoppa and Piazza Cavour in the town centre.

Mercato settimanale di Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Tuesday and Friday mornings, about 07:30–13:00: around 200 stalls of food, clothing and household goods fill Piazza Castello.

Mercato settimanale di Molare

Tuesday and Friday mornings: Molare's small market in Piazza Dario Pesce, with food, farm-produce and general stalls.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Mercato settimanale di Asti

Wednesday and Saturday mornings: Asti's main market, about 240 stalls in Piazza Campo del Palio, Piazza Libertà and Largo Saracco.

Mercato settimanale di Vignale Monferrato

Vignale Monferrato

Wednesday mornings: Vignale Monferrato's small weekly market in Piazza Franco Mezzadra, with a pitch set aside for local farmers.

Mercato settimanale di Agliano Terme

Thursday mornings: Agliano Terme's small weekly market in Piazza Roma.

Mercato settimanale di Alessandria

Mondays and Thursdays (morning and afternoon) and Saturday mornings: Alessandria's general market in Piazza Garibaldi.

Mercato settimanale di Moncalvo

Every Thursday morning, Moncalvo's weekly market fills the porticoed Piazza Carlo Alberto.

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato's festival of books and ideas: a late-October weekend of author talks, workshops, children's readings and a theatre show under the roof of the Foro Boario, built each year around a theme.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Mercato settimanale di Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Friday mornings: Montiglio Monferrato's weekly market in Piazza Regina Margherita, with farmers' stalls along the outer side of the square.

Mercato settimanale di Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato

Every Friday morning, roughly 8:00–13:00: food and produce in Piazza XX Settembre, clothes and household goods in Piazza Garibaldi and Via Carlo Alberto.

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Moncalvo

Moncalvo fills Piazza Carlo Alberto with white truffles for its national fair, one of Piedmont's historic truffle fairs: a truffle competition and a market of truffles, typical Monferrato products and food, with truffle hunts, guided hill walks and open churches on the side.

Bagna Cauda d'Autunno

Vigliano d'Asti

Come autumn, Vigliano d'Asti throws its bagna cauda sagra for the traditional Piedmontese anchovy-garlic dip, with a communal dinner and a walking route.

Cocconato's autumn bagna càuda night: the Pro Loco and the local associations serve terrines of the garlic-and-anchovy dip with vegetables, then raviolini in brodo and bollito misto, in the hall of the Cortile del Collegio.

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Mercato settimanale di Montemagno Monferrato

Montemagno Monferrato

Saturday mornings: Montemagno Monferrato's weekly market in Piazza Umberto I.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Moncalvo

Moncalvo fills Piazza Carlo Alberto with white truffles for its national fair, one of Piedmont's historic truffle fairs: a truffle competition and a market of truffles, typical Monferrato products and food, with truffle hunts, guided hill walks and open churches on the side.

After Harvest — c'è fermento in borgata!

Once the grapes are in, Agliano Terme opens its cellars on three October Sundays — start at BAart, then walk, drive or cycle out to the wineries, tasting three growers' wines paired with autumn dishes.

Asti Antique Market (Mercatino dell'Antiquariato)

On the fourth Sunday of every month up to about 150 dealers and hobbyists set out antiques, second-hand goods and collectibles in Piazza Alfieri, the big arcaded square in the centre of Asti.

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Attraverso Festival — tappa di Canelli

The touring Attraverso Festival, a culture festival across the Langhe, Monferrato, Roero and Appennino Piemontese, plays a night at Canelli's Teatro Balbo.

Mercatino degli Sgaientò

Once a month, Corso Bagni and Piazza Italia fill with the Mercatino degli Sgaientò — around 150 stalls of antiques, old furniture, vintage clothes, modernariato and collectibles to pick through, all day.

Mercato settimanale di Cerrina Monferrato

Cerrina Monferrato

Sunday mornings: Cerrina Monferrato's weekly market in Piazza Cesare Bollo.

Mercato settimanale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Sunday mornings: a small market of about a dozen stalls on Via Roma and Piazza Medici del Vascello, in the centre of Costigliole d'Asti.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Sagra del Cardo Gobbo e della Barbera

Incisa Scapaccino

Late October, Incisa gives over a weekend to the cardo gobbo — the hunchbacked cardoon blanched under earth until it's pale and sweet — eaten raw with bagna càuda and poured alongside the local Barbera.

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Ottobre Alessandrino

A month-long autumn culture festival across Alessandria: cinema, theatre, music, books, talks and workshops in venues around the city, mixing 'high' and 'pop' culture with national guests. The 2026 edition, the third, is built around Umberto Eco, born in Alessandria.

Mostra "Sarah's Ark" — Sarah Bowyer (BAart, Agliano Terme)

An autumn solo show at BAart in Agliano Terme. 'Sarah's Ark' by the Italian-British artist Sarah Bowyer shows twelve works on fabric, a contemporary Noah's Ark of exotic animals, carnivorous flowers and a mysterious female figure. Free entry.

The International Alba White Truffle Fair

The International Alba White Truffle Fair is Piedmont's big autumn food date: a certified white-truffle world market alongside cooking shows, sensory analysis, wine tastings, exhibitions and the World Truffle Auction.

Antonio Guarene. Asti e il Palio in un tratto

An exhibition of drawings by Antonio Guarene about Asti and its Palio, at the Museo del Palio in Palazzo Mazzola, open from June 2026 to May 2027.

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Autunno in Musica

Nizza Monferrato

The Accademia di Cultura Nicese L'Erca's autumn classical concert season: Friday evenings of chamber music in the Auditorium Santissima Trinità, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Nizza Monferrato.

Costigliole d'Asti

The biggest tasting bench dedicated to Barbera: over four days around All Saints', the castle of Costigliole d'Asti pours more than 400 Barberas from some 200 wineries, with masterclasses, a historic-vintage tasting, Barbera food pairings, a grappa salon and a walk through the old Rocca quarter.

Festa di Halloween per i Bambini (San Marzano Oliveto)

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco throws a children's Halloween party in San Marzano Oliveto on 31 October — the village's autumn get-together for families once the harvest is done.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Stagione di Teatro in Lingua Piemontese

Moncalvo's autumn season of comedies in Piedmontese: four Saturday nights at the Teatro Civico, mostly in October, with dialect theatre companies from across Piedmont.

Fiera di San Carlo e del Tartufo Bianco

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's centuries-old autumn fair honours the local cardo gobbo (hunchback cardoon) and bagna cauda, now paired with the White Truffle Fair of the Alto Monferrato — a full day of grand market, tastings and cooking shows.

Mercatino dell'Antiquariato di Moncalvo

Once a month, dealers set up under the arcades of Piazza Carlo Alberto and Piazza Garibaldi with antiques, old prints and Piedmontese bric-a-brac.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Mostra-Mercato Piccoli Animali

San Damiano d'Asti

A monthly small-animals market and show on the Baluardo Palestro in San Damiano d'Asti, the first Sunday of every month.

L'Officina delle Memorie — Mercatino dell'Antiquariato di Alessandria

Alessandria's monthly antiques market: on the first Sunday of every month 'L'Officina delle Memorie' lines the arcades of Piazza Garibaldi and Piazza Marconi with antiques, collectables, period furniture, prints, quality vintage, old farm objects and art books.

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

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Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Bagna Càuda della Pro Loco di Ovrano

Two early-November evenings of bagna càuda at the Pro Loco di Ovrano, in Acqui Terme's hill frazione: the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip served the traditional way, with raw, boiled and pickled vegetables and egg. Booking required.

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Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Bagna Càuda della Pro Loco di Ovrano

Two early-November evenings of bagna càuda at the Pro Loco di Ovrano, in Acqui Terme's hill frazione: the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip served the traditional way, with raw, boiled and pickled vegetables and egg. Booking required.

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Fiera di San Baudolino — Alessandria

Alessandria's patronal fair for San Baudolino, its patron saint (feast 10 November): a November weekend that fills the centre with typical-produce stalls — truffles, salumi, cheeses, honey, chocolate — plus wine tastings at Palazzo del Monferrato and the Corte del Gusto.

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Gran Fritto Misto alla Piemontese

Vigliano d'Asti

The Pro Loco of Vigliano d'Asti cooks fritto misto alla piemontese — the Piedmontese mixed-fry — for a whole weekend at the town's sports centre.

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Il Paniere — Mercatino Biologico di Acqui Terme

A monthly organic market in Piazza Maggiorino Ferraris: on the first Saturday morning of each month organic producers bring fruit and vegetables, honey, cereals, wine and cheese, with books and basketwork on the side.

"Sapori d'autunno" a Grana Monferrato (AT)

Grana Monferrato

Grana Monferrato's Pro Loco brings out the bagna cauda for autumn, both the traditional pot and a garlic-free version, over a November weekend at the Pro Loco hall.

Fiera del Tartufo e Fiera di San Martino

Canelli's big November fair day: a national truffle showcase alongside the traditional San Martino market, with over a hundred stalls filling the town.

Librando — Mercatino del Libro

A monthly book market under the arcades of Corso Bagni — Librando lays out stalls of second-hand and antiquarian books, prints and curiosities for browsers to pick through, one Sunday a month from spring to Christmas.

Mercatino dell'Antiquariato di Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

One of Italy's biggest antiques markets: 300-plus dealers filling the Liberty-era Mercato Pavia and Piazza Castello every second Sunday of the month.

"Sapori d'autunno" a Grana Monferrato (AT)

Grana Monferrato

Grana Monferrato's Pro Loco brings out the bagna cauda for autumn, both the traditional pot and a garlic-free version, over a November weekend at the Pro Loco hall.

Festa di Sant'Evasio

Casale Monferrato

Casale honours Sant'Evasio, patron of the city and diocese, on 12 November — a solemn Pontificale in the cathedral, a preceding novena, and the blessing and giving-out of the traditional Galletti biscuits.

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Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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A monthly Saturday market of organic food, crafts and eco-friendly products in Piazza Statuto, in the centre of Asti, held on the second Saturday of the month from March to December.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Market 15121 — Mercato in Cammino

A monthly craft and local-producer market in Piazza Marconi and Via San Lorenzo, every second Saturday from 9:00 to 19:00, run by the association behind the Grande Cammino del Monferrato walking route, with guided walks and talks alongside the stalls.

Mercatino Vintage

A monthly vintage and modernariato market along Via Roma in Cocconato, usually on the second Saturday of the month from February to December, 10:00–17:00.

Nizza è Bagna Cauda

Nizza Monferrato

A November feast of bagna cauda — the warm anchovy-and-garlic dip — served at long communal tables in the Foro Boario, with the local Cardo Gobbo di Nizza as the vegetable to dip.

Fiera del Tartufo "Trifola d'Or" di Murisengo

Murisengo's great white-truffle fair fills the village at the foot of its thousand-year-old castle over two Sundays in November — a market of white (and black) truffles with over a hundred food, wine and craft producers, the Trifola d'Or awards, and autumn truffle menus in the local restaurants.

Fiera di Santa Caterina — Acqui Terme

Acqui's traditional November fair: three days of market stalls filling the centre (Corso Cavour, Corso Dante, Piazza Italia, Via XX Settembre and Corso Bagni), with a luna park set up in Piazza Don Dolermo for the fortnight around it.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Mercatino dell'Antiquariato Nicese

Nizza Monferrato

Every month 350+ vendors fill Nizza's arcaded Piazza Garibaldi with fine antiques, rustic Piedmontese furniture, prints, vinyl and collectibles — a long-running fixture of the town's calendar.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Canelli si racconta

A storytelling evening celebrating Canelli's residents and their traditions.

Acqui & Sapori — Mostra Regionale del Tartufo

Acqui's big late-November truffle weekend: the regional white-truffle exhibition fills the historic centre with truffle hunters, some forty producer stalls and the territory's excellences — Brachetto d'Acqui, Robiola di Roccaverano, honey, hazelnuts and Monferrato cheeses.

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Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Il Paniere — mercatino biologico

Casale Monferrato

Casale's monthly organic market: on the third Saturday, Piazza Mazzini fills with growers of organic and biodiversity produce, artisans and, some months, workshops for children.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Fiera del Tartufo "Trifola d'Or" di Murisengo

Murisengo's great white-truffle fair fills the village at the foot of its thousand-year-old castle over two Sundays in November — a market of white (and black) truffles with over a hundred food, wine and craft producers, the Trifola d'Or awards, and autumn truffle menus in the local restaurants.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Festa patronale di Santa Caterina

Monale keeps its traditional Santa Caterina patronal festival on the last weekend of November.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Monferrato Antiquaria

Casale Monferrato

An antiques and collectors' fair under cover at Casale's Palafiere: a weekend in every month that has a fifth Sunday, run by the same people as the town's long-standing second-Sunday antiques market.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Bagna Cauda Day

Over two weekends in late November, well over a hundred restaurants, trattorie, wine cellars, farm inns and Pro Loco halls in Asti, across Piedmont and abroad serve bagna càuda at the same time, at a fixed price, with a bib to take home.

Fiera Nazionale di Sua Maestà il Bue Grasso e Sagra del Bollito

A cattle fair that has run since the 1600s: the finest fattened Piemontese oxen are judged under Moncalvo's porticoes while the town serves bollito misto across its squares.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Mercatino di Natale

Cocconato's one-day Christmas market on the last Sunday of November: crafts, gifts and local produce along Via Roma, with polenta and vin brulé from the Pro Loco.

Monferrato Antiquaria

Casale Monferrato

An antiques and collectors' fair under cover at Casale's Palafiere: a weekend in every month that has a fifth Sunday, run by the same people as the town's long-standing second-Sunday antiques market.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di San Damiano d'Asti e Fiera dei Santi

San Damiano d'Asti

San Damiano d'Asti's national white-truffle fair, held together with the old Fiera dei Santi: a truffle market in Piazza Libertà and Via Roma, a truffle competition, simulated truffle hunts and food stands.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Fiera del Bue Grasso e del Manzo di razza piemontese

Nizza Monferrato

Every December Nizza revives its historic cattle market: prize Piedmontese 'fat oxen' and beef cattle shown off in Piazza Garibaldi, a Slow Food market alongside, and the traditional Gran Bollito served in the Foro Boario.

Fiera Regionale del Tartufo

A regional white truffle fair for the 'king of the autumn table', with local food, wine and crafts, markets and a festive buzz.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Presepe vivente

San Damiano d'Asti

A living nativity (presepe vivente) with a Christmas market winding through the historic centre of San Damiano d'Asti.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Christmas in Via Principe

A Christmas food and gift market down Via Principe Amedeo and Via Mazzini, with street food from Agliano's own bars and shops, plus music and folklore.

Concerto di Natale "Musica dei Donum optimi"

Cocconato's Christmas concert in the parish church of Santa Maria della Consolazione. In 2025 it was the Rosamystica choir's 'Musica dei Donum Optimi'; in 2026 it's a gospel concert on 8 December, the day the presepi go up.

Il Borgo e i suoi Presepi

From 8 December to Epiphany Cocconato fills with nativity scenes: cribs in shop windows and corners of the old centre, the 'Presepi d'Artista' show in the Salone Comunale, a crochet presepe, and a life-size presepe of 'babacci' figures along the parish church steps, lit at night.

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Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

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Oro Incenso Mirra — Presepi nel Monferrato

Castagnole Monferrato

Castagnole Monferrato's Christmas nativity show: from early December to Epiphany the Tenuta La Mercantile estate fills with handmade presepi — recycled-material scenes, mechanised cribs, period settings and work by schoolchildren — with workshops, a Christmas concert and a Befana treasure hunt.

Christmas exhibition

Presepe vivente

San Damiano d'Asti

A living nativity (presepe vivente) with a Christmas market winding through the historic centre of San Damiano d'Asti.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Asti

Asti's national white truffle fair: a weekend of truffles checked and certified by the local truffle hunters' association, prizes for the best truffle and the best truffle dish, and a Sunday market of Langhe, Monferrato and Roero food and wine in the streets of the historic centre.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Fiera storica del Cappone

San Damiano d'Asti

A historic capon fair where around a thousand birds from over 30 breeders go on show and up for sale, with a gastronomic festival built around the local Cappone Nostrano (Piedmont capon).

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Presepe vivente

San Damiano d'Asti

A living nativity (presepe vivente) with a Christmas market winding through the historic centre of San Damiano d'Asti.

Villaggio di Natale

Calliano Monferrato

Villaggio di Natale is a one-day Christmas market in Calliano Monferrato's Piazza Marconi — holiday stalls, live music and things for the children to do.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Concerto di Natale

Grana Monferrato

A Christmas concert in the parish church of Grana Monferrato on the last Sunday before Christmas; the listing photo shows the Asti Gospel Choir.

Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti

Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.

Christmas market

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

L'Aperitivo del Lardo

Nizza Monferrato

Every 26 December at 12:30 the Pro Loco of Nizza Monferrato offers the town an aperitivo under the Campanon, the bell tower of the town hall. It commemorates the day in 1798 when the Nicesi chased off an armed royalist mob.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Concerto di Capodanno di Asti

The New Year's Day concert of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Asti at the Teatro Alfieri: every 1 January at 17:00, Viennese waltzes and polkas of the Strauss family and other favourites, played with gags between the musicians, the conductor and the audience.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Municipale

Casale Monferrato

Casale's winter theatre and dance season at the nineteenth-century Teatro Municipale — a run of prose, comedy, ballet, operetta and music from November to April, with big names off the Italian touring circuit.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Asti's summer music festival: for two or three weeks every July a big open-air stage in Piazza Alfieri hosts evening concerts by Italian and international artists, plus a few comedy and spoken-word nights.

Casale Città Aperta

Casale Monferrato

Casale's recurring 'open city' days, when the Castello del Monferrato, the civic museums, the Synagogue and other monuments open together with guided visits, exhibitions and events — a monthly excuse to see the town's insides.

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Riso & Rose in Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

A month-long spring festival spread across some thirty Monferrato comuni — food and wine, floriculture, crafts and music — with Casale hosting concerts and readings in its churches, synagogue and Philharmonic Academy.

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Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Moncalvo

Moncalvo fills Piazza Carlo Alberto with white truffles for its national fair, one of Piedmont's historic truffle fairs: a truffle competition and a market of truffles, typical Monferrato products and food, with truffle hunts, guided hill walks and open churches on the side.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Musica in Filarmonica & Casale Classica

Casale Monferrato

Casale's classical season, October to May: chamber and piano recitals in the Accademia Filarmonica's Palazzo Gozzani di Treville, and orchestras and star soloists at the Teatro Municipale.

Sapori d'Autunno a Motta di Costigliole

Costigliole d'Asti

Two October weekends of Piedmontese autumn cooking in the frazione of Motta, under a heated marquee at the sports field: the first weekend is dedicated to bagna cauda, the second to fritto misto alla piemontese, both served Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch by the Pro Loco di Motta.

Memorial di Tamburello- Monale (AT)

Monale plays an afternoon of tamburello — the old Piedmontese tambourine-ball game — then everyone sits down to a communal dinner with live music.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Paglio Ragliante

Calliano Monferrato

The Paglio Ragliante donkey race, with a historical parade, food, folklore and family activities in the village of Calliano Monferrato.

Sapori d'Autunno a Motta di Costigliole

Costigliole d'Asti

Two October weekends of Piedmontese autumn cooking in the frazione of Motta, under a heated marquee at the sports field: the first weekend is dedicated to bagna cauda, the second to fritto misto alla piemontese, both served Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch by the Pro Loco di Motta.

Stagione di Teatro in Lingua Piemontese

Moncalvo's autumn season of comedies in Piedmontese: four Saturday nights at the Teatro Civico, mostly in October, with dialect theatre companies from across Piedmont.

Autunno in Musica

Nizza Monferrato

The Accademia di Cultura Nicese L'Erca's autumn classical concert season: Friday evenings of chamber music in the Auditorium Santissima Trinità, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Nizza Monferrato.

Fiera del Rapulé

Calosso's autumn fair, held since 2000 on the third weekend of October: a walking route through the lanes, courtyards, stairways and crotin of the old centre, the tufa cellars under the houses, with Piedmontese dishes and the wines of the village's Crota 'd Calos producers, all paid for in the fair's own 'crotin' tokens.

Food & wine walk

Premio Acqui Storia

One of Italy's oldest and most respected history-book prizes, awarded in Acqui Terme every autumn. The ceremony at the Teatro Ariston crowns the year's best works of scientific history, popular history and the historical novel.

After Harvest — c'è fermento in borgata!

Once the grapes are in, Agliano Terme opens its cellars on three October Sundays — start at BAart, then walk, drive or cycle out to the wineries, tasting three growers' wines paired with autumn dishes.

Castagnata e Fiazein di Battagliosi

The autumn chestnut festa up at Battagliosi, a hamlet of Molare: roast chestnuts and 'fiazein', the local flatbread specialty, run by the Pro Loco di Battagliosi-Albareto on an afternoon in mid-October.

Fiera d'Autunno

Asti's autumn fair, one of the three seasonal fairs the city holds every year: on the second Sunday of October around 450 stalls of food and general goods line Piazza Alfieri and the streets around it.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's national truffle fair opens Piedmont's autumn round of truffle fairs on the first two Sundays of October, with the truffle hunters' morning gathering, prizes for the best white truffles, a market of local produce, the Pro Loco's truffle lunch and historic trains from Turin to the old station.

Sapori d'Autunno a Motta di Costigliole

Costigliole d'Asti

Two October weekends of Piedmontese autumn cooking in the frazione of Motta, under a heated marquee at the sports field: the first weekend is dedicated to bagna cauda, the second to fritto misto alla piemontese, both served Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch by the Pro Loco di Motta.

Vignale Autunno Di...Vino

Vignale Monferrato

Monferrato wine at Palazzo Callori in mid-October — tastings straight from local producers, walks down into the tuff infernot cellars, and the hills turning colour.

Wine festivalLocal

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Cocconato Letteraria – Il Borgo racconta

An autumn afternoon of 'letture in cammino': readings at stops along the streets of Cocconato, then an author talk in the village library. Organised by the Biblioteca Civica.

LiteratureLocal

Mostra "La magnificenza dell'anima" — Giacomo Soffiantino

Costigliole d'Asti

An autumn exhibition of paintings by the Turin artist Giacomo Soffiantino (1929–2013), four-time Biennale di Venezia exhibitor, in the rooms of Casa Prunotto in Costigliole d'Asti's old Rocca quarter — weekends from 10 October to 1 November, free entry.

Nizza Monferrato

Two autumn nights in the centre of Nizza Monferrato: street food, shops open late for a notte bianca, Monferrato wine, and live music and DJ sets — a 2000s special on Friday, live bands on Saturday.

Street festivalLocal

Pigiama Walk — Insieme per un respiro in più

A non-competitive charity walk through Acqui Terme in pyjamas, starting from Piazza della Bollente on an October Saturday afternoon, raising awareness and funds for cystic fibrosis research, with face painting, giant bubbles and a 'cyclamen hunt' in the shop windows.

Charity walkLocal

Sapori d'Autunno a Motta di Costigliole

Costigliole d'Asti

Two October weekends of Piedmontese autumn cooking in the frazione of Motta, under a heated marquee at the sports field: the first weekend is dedicated to bagna cauda, the second to fritto misto alla piemontese, both served Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch by the Pro Loco di Motta.

Stagione di Teatro in Lingua Piemontese

Moncalvo's autumn season of comedies in Piedmontese: four Saturday nights at the Teatro Civico, mostly in October, with dialect theatre companies from across Piedmont.

Autunno in Musica

Nizza Monferrato

The Accademia di Cultura Nicese L'Erca's autumn classical concert season: Friday evenings of chamber music in the Auditorium Santissima Trinità, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Nizza Monferrato.

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

Nizza Monferrato

Two autumn nights in the centre of Nizza Monferrato: street food, shops open late for a notte bianca, Monferrato wine, and live music and DJ sets — a 2000s special on Friday, live bands on Saturday.

Street festivalLocal

Canelli in Teatro

Canelli's winter stage season at the Teatro Balbo, run by the Fondazione Egri dance centre. Contemporary dance, prose, music and shadow theatre play on single evenings from October to May, with a few family matinées.

After Harvest — c'è fermento in borgata!

Once the grapes are in, Agliano Terme opens its cellars on three October Sundays — start at BAart, then walk, drive or cycle out to the wineries, tasting three growers' wines paired with autumn dishes.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Caccia ai Tesori Arancioni (Cocconato)

The Touring Club Italiano's Bandiera Arancione treasure hunt: on one Sunday in early October teams follow clues and local stories round more than 100 Orange Flag villages across Italy, and Cocconato is one of them.

Gara dei Barcè

Casale Monferrato

Casale's river race on the Po: wooden barcè rowed standing up, the old way, against the clock at the town's landing stage, followed by an afternoon of free boat trips for anyone who turns up.

Traditional regattaLocal

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Fiera Nazionale del Tartufo di Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's national truffle fair opens Piedmont's autumn round of truffle fairs on the first two Sundays of October, with the truffle hunters' morning gathering, prizes for the best white truffles, a market of local produce, the Pro Loco's truffle lunch and historic trains from Turin to the old station.

Vendemmia in Arte

Rosignano Monferrato

Rosignano's harvest festa turns the hilltop lanes into an open-air gallery — wine and food tastings, art and photography shows, music and evening visits down into the infernot — on the first Sunday of October.

Harvest festivalLocal

Nizza Monferrato

Three days given over entirely to Nizza DOCG — the top-tier Barbera grown in purity on the hills right around town — poured by its producers at Palazzo Crova.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Rassegna teatrale "A fa mej na bela ghignada pitost che..."

A Piedmontese-dialect theatre festival at the Palamenta in Piovà Massaia, on the first Saturday of each month from June to October.

Stagione di Teatro in Lingua Piemontese

Moncalvo's autumn season of comedies in Piedmontese: four Saturday nights at the Teatro Civico, mostly in October, with dialect theatre companies from across Piedmont.

Trail della Barbera

Trail della Barbera is a vineyard trail race at Mongardino (AT): 10, 16 and 25 km competitive routes plus a non-competitive walk, run through Barbera country with the food and wine to match.

Vendemmia in Arte

Rosignano Monferrato

Rosignano's harvest festa turns the hilltop lanes into an open-air gallery — wine and food tastings, art and photography shows, music and evening visits down into the infernot — on the first Sunday of October.

Harvest festivalLocal

Autunno in Musica

Nizza Monferrato

The Accademia di Cultura Nicese L'Erca's autumn classical concert season: Friday evenings of chamber music in the Auditorium Santissima Trinità, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Nizza Monferrato.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Monferrato Green Farm

Casale Monferrato

Casale's three-day autumn fair of plants, farming and the green economy at the Polo Fieristico Riccardo Coppo: nurseries and growers, farm animals, food producers, talks, and plenty for children.

Agricultural & garden fair

Festa del Cristo — Alessandria

The patronal festa of the Cristo, the Alessandria quarter south of the centre: some eleven days of early-October events between Piazza Zanzi, Via Maggioli and Piazza Campora, ending with the grand fair along Corso Acqui on the final Sunday.

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Mercato Europeo — Alessandria

Four days of food, drink and crafts from across Europe along Viale della Repubblica: Alessandria's Mercato Europeo, run by the Procom consortium and Confesercenti each late September or early October.

Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Costigliole d'Asti

A non-competitive food-and-wine walk through the vineyards and pepper fields of Motta di Costigliole — a 14 km route of staged tastings pairing the local Peperone Quadrato and Barbera d'Asti with Piedmontese dishes, on foot or by shuttle bus.

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Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Festival Nontìscordàrdimé (Agliano Terme)

A late-September weekend of poetry, performance, music and street art in Agliano Terme, held in memory of the local poet and performer Ivan Fassio. Each edition adds a new mural with his verses to the town's walls.

Palio degli Asini

Cocconato's donkey palio, raced since 1970 on a Sunday in late September: the borghi parade in medieval costume behind an ox-drawn carroccio, then run their donkeys uphill from Piazza Giordano to Piazza Cavour and back down through the old streets.

Vendemmia in Vigna con i Bambini (Vini Piana)

On three September Sundays, the Piana winery in Mombaruzzo turns the grape harvest into a morning for families — children pick with the growers, then the day carries on among the vines.

Harvest experience

Autunno in Musica

Nizza Monferrato

The Accademia di Cultura Nicese L'Erca's autumn classical concert season: Friday evenings of chamber music in the Auditorium Santissima Trinità, a deconsecrated church in the centre of Nizza Monferrato.

Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Festa Nazionale Plen Air

The Festa Nazionale del PleinAir, the camper travellers' weekend run by the Bandiera Arancione towns and PleinAir magazine. Cocconato takes part on the last weekend of September, which is also Palio weekend.

Festival del Medioevo Astese

A late-September festival about Asti in the Middle Ages, run by the Comune since 2024: lectures and conferences with historians, exhibitions, concerts and guided walks through medieval Asti, mostly in the Complesso di San Pietro and all free.

History festival

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Acquinbanda & Festa dell'Uva — Acqui Terme

Acqui's September harvest weekend: marching bands parading through the centre, band concerts, Monferrato food and wine stands, DJ sets and a grape-stomping contest to close it out.

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Agrifiera Polli e Buoi dei Paesi Tuoi

Tonco's one-day farm fair on the third Sunday of September: free guided visits to the village's farms and livestock, vintage cars and tractors, a market of local products, pony rides, children's workshops and the Pro Loco kitchen.

Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Sportland — La festa dello Sport

Canelli's sports clubs set up around town for a day and let kids have a go at whatever they run.

Acquinbanda & Festa dell'Uva — Acqui Terme

Acqui's September harvest weekend: marching bands parading through the centre, band concerts, Monferrato food and wine stands, DJ sets and a grape-stomping contest to close it out.

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Barbatellando — Festa della Vendemmia

Nizza Monferrato

Cascina la Barbatella's harvest party above Nizza Monferrato — the Fraschette dei Castelli Romani brought to the vineyard for street food from Sora Lella's Roman recipes, poured with the estate's own Nizza DOCG and Barbera. Free entry.

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Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Festa della Vendemmia

Right in the heart of Canelli, a September harvest festival fills the streets — food and wine stalls, folk music and dancing, old-crafts demonstrations, and the traditional "cantè j'euv" through the piazzas.

Harvest festival

Fiera Medievale

The medieval fair that opens Cocconato's Palio fortnight: the borghi turn Via Roma into a torch-lit market of taverns, old trades and street performers, with medieval-style dishes served in earthenware.

Gagliaudo tra i mercanti

A September weekend market fair through the streets and squares of central Alessandria, named after Gagliaudo, the peasant of the city's medieval foundation legend — dozens of stalls, discounted goods and street food.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

San Damiano d'Asti

Sipario takes over San Damiano d'Asti with street theatre, music and buskers, plus a market, typical local dishes and wines from the town's Enoteca.

Vendemmia in Vigna con i Bambini (Vini Piana)

On three September Sundays, the Piana winery in Mombaruzzo turns the grape harvest into a morning for families — children pick with the growers, then the day carries on among the vines.

Harvest experience

Festa del Vino del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big harvest wine festival, spread over two September weekends in Piazza Castello — dozens of Pro Loco kitchens, thirty Monferrato producers pouring, and a pyromusical show over the castle.

Every two years, Bra's fills the historic centre of Bra (Roero) — a gastronomy festival for Salsiccia di Bra sausage, plus cheese, bread and rice.

Festa dell'Uva — Molare in Vendemmia

Molare's grape-harvest afternoon on a mid-September Sunday: music and costumes of the old vendemmia in the Oratorio courtyard, a merenda of frittelle and farinata, and doorways, balconies and gardens across the village dressed on a harvest-and-autumn theme.

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Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Barbatella — Pic-nic in Vigna

Nizza Monferrato

A booked lunchtime picnic among the vines at the Barbatella estate above Nizza Monferrato — a hamper of local food with the winery's own Nizza DOCG and Barbera, laid out in the vineyard.

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Festival delle Sagre Astigiane

One weekend in September when around thirty village Pro Loco from the province of Asti cook their own dishes side by side in a mock village on Piazza Campo del Palio, with a Sunday-morning parade of thousands of people in period costume acting out the country life of a century ago.

Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Vendemmia in Vigna con i Bambini (Vini Piana)

On three September Sundays, the Piana winery in Mombaruzzo turns the grape harvest into a morning for families — children pick with the growers, then the day carries on among the vines.

Harvest experience

Asti's ten-day wine festival every September, held since 1967: tastings, masterclasses, talks and food pairings spread through the squares and palazzi of the old centre, with Piedmont's wine consorzi and producers pouring.

Festa Patronale "Serate in Riviera"

Cocconato's patronal festa for Santi Fausto e Felice: evenings of Pro Loco food stands and concerts in Piazza Giordano, a Sunday dinner in the Cortile del Collegio, and the Fiera Patronale market on the Monday.

Germinale — Monferrato Art Fest

Castagnole Monferrato

A month of diffuse contemporary art across the Basso Monferrato each autumn — some 60 artists in 29 venues over 18 comuni, with Castagnole Monferrato hosting the final show of the Selva Art Prize for under-40 artists.

Costigliole d'Asti

An international painting competition and exhibition staged each autumn in the castle of Costigliole d'Asti — the 2026 edition, 'Rosso di Terra', hung through the castle rooms on September and October weekends.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Canelli in Teatro Summer

Canelli's theatre season stretches into summer, run by the Fondazione Egri, carrying contemporary dance and theatre out of the Teatro Balbo and into venues across town.

Cocktail Wine & Beer Summer Fest

Canelli's early-September drinks weekend — Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza Zoppa fill with cocktail and beer stands, food trucks and a DJ, Friday and Saturday nights until two, Sunday from lunch.

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Montemagno sotto le stelle e non solo

Montemagno Monferrato

A late-summer municipal festival in Montemagno — three evenings of live music, a DJ set and dialect theatre under the stars in and around Piazza San Martino.

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Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Asti's bareback horse race, first recorded in 1275: on the first Sunday of September 21 riders for the city's districts and the towns of the province race round Piazza Alfieri, after a costumed procession of 1,200 people through the old centre.

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Alessandria's comics, cosplay, gaming and pop-culture festival, held each early September inside the star-shaped Cittadella — exhibitor stalls, guests, cosplay, workshops and panels for all ages.

Camminata Enigmistica a Squadre

A team puzzle-walk around Molare: 3.5 km of easy trail with riddle stations along the way, scored as you go, finishing with a Pro Loco aperitivo dinner.

Cocktail Wine & Beer Summer Fest

Canelli's early-September drinks weekend — Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza Zoppa fill with cocktail and beer stands, food trucks and a DJ, Friday and Saturday nights until two, Sunday from lunch.

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Festa delle Feste

A September weekend when about twenty Pro Loco from the Acquese and Astigiano take over Acqui's pedestrian old town with food stands, a regional wine show and the traditional Palio del Brentau water-carriers' race.

L'Altro Monferrato a Molare

Molare's date in 'L'Altro Monferrato', the touring late-summer theatre festival that crosses the Apennines between Piedmont and Liguria — in 2026, an open-air evening with Moni Ovadia in Piazza del Comune.

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Montemagno sotto le stelle e non solo

Montemagno Monferrato

A late-summer municipal festival in Montemagno — three evenings of live music, a DJ set and dialect theatre under the stars in and around Piazza San Martino.

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Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Rassegna teatrale "A fa mej na bela ghignada pitost che..."

A Piedmontese-dialect theatre festival at the Palamenta in Piovà Massaia, on the first Saturday of each month from June to October.

Cocco...Wine 2026

Cocconato's wine festival: for a weekend in early September the wineries of Cocconato and the Riviera del Monferrato pour along a 'strada del vino' from Piazza Giordano through Piazza Cavour and down Via Roma, with food stands and typical produce.

Cocktail Wine & Beer Summer Fest

Canelli's early-September drinks weekend — Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza Zoppa fill with cocktail and beer stands, food trucks and a DJ, Friday and Saturday nights until two, Sunday from lunch.

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Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Montemagno sotto le stelle e non solo

Montemagno Monferrato

A late-summer municipal festival in Montemagno — three evenings of live music, a DJ set and dialect theatre under the stars in and around Piazza San Martino.

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Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Attraverso Festival — tappa di Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato

The touring Attraverso Festival — a summer culture festival across the Langhe, Monferrato, Roero and Appennino Piemontese — stops in Nizza's main square for a couple of late-summer evenings of comedy and talk.

Contro Festival 2026

Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Contro Festival 2026

Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Monferrato Antiquaria

Casale Monferrato

An antiques and collectors' fair under cover at Casale's Palafiere: a weekend in every month that has a fifth Sunday, run by the same people as the town's long-standing second-Sunday antiques market.

Monferrato Classic Festival

Vignale Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Vignale strand: young-talent classical recitals on August Sundays at half past five, in the Chiesa dell'Addolorata.

Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Acqui Prog Night

Six hours of live progressive rock in an Acqui piazza on the last Saturday of August — six bands, three of them fronted by women, free entry, with fassona burgers, ravioli and Sagrin beer to keep you there past midnight.

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Contro Festival 2026

Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Festa dell'Acciuga

Moransengo (Moransengo-Tonengo)

The Festa dell'Acciuga of the 'Principato di Moransengo': an evening anchovy party in Moransengo, the neighbouring village that races as a borgo in Cocconato's Palio degli Asini.

Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

Festival di Fine Estate — Acqui Terme

An end-of-summer open-air night in Piazza del Comune, Acqui — commercial tech-house from Giordano and Fede Posca, street food and a bar from seven till two, free entry.

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Monferrato Antiquaria

Casale Monferrato

An antiques and collectors' fair under cover at Casale's Palafiere: a weekend in every month that has a fifth Sunday, run by the same people as the town's long-standing second-Sunday antiques market.

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

Contro Festival 2026

Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Festa di Agosto - Mini Sagre

For two August evenings, Mongardino puts on its 'Mini Sagre' — typical dishes cooked by the Pro Loco of Mongardino, Carretti and Montaldo Scarampi.

An international organ festival in Asti Cathedral: four Friday-evening concerts between late July and late August on the cathedral's two historic organs, leading up to and following the feast of the Assumption.

Sagra del Fritto Misto alla Piemontese di Montaldo

Cerrina Monferrato

Four late-summer evenings in the Cerrina hamlet of Montaldo built around fritto misto alla piemontese — the great mixed fry with its bagnet verde — plus homemade antipasti, agnolotti and a live orchestra each night.

Sagra dell'Anguilla e della Friciula

Antignano's sagra pairs eel with friciula — fried dough — at Piedmontese food stands each evening, with live music to follow.

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Sagra dello Stufato d'asino

Calliano Monferrato

Donkey stew — stufato d'asino — is the reason to come to Calliano Monferrato this weekend, alongside other traditional dishes and music from Friday to Sunday.

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Contro Festival 2026

Castagnole delle Lanze

Food stands, live music and shows take over Piazza San Bartolomeo in Castagnole delle Lanze across several days.

Serata Total White da Raiz

Nizza Monferrato

A late-August total-white dinner-and-drinks night at Raiz in Nizza — bossa nova from the Jazzrain trio, churrasco off the grill and a cocktail bar under the stars.

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Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Festa Patronale di San Bartolomeo

Vignale Monferrato

Vignale's patron-saint feast in late August — the Pro Loco fires up the food stands in the piazza and local bands play into the evening, and it's free.

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Festa Patronale di San Bartolomeo — Rinco

Montiglio Monferrato

Four late-August evenings in the hilltop hamlet of Rinco for its patron San Bartolomeo: the Circolo Sportivo's food stand with table service, then free dancing every night under the pavilion, from Occitan folk dances to a DJ, a live band and a liscio orchestra.

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Monferrato Classic Festival

Vignale Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Vignale strand: young-talent classical recitals on August Sundays at half past five, in the Chiesa dell'Addolorata.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Festa Patronale di San Bartolomeo — Rinco

Montiglio Monferrato

Four late-August evenings in the hilltop hamlet of Rinco for its patron San Bartolomeo: the Circolo Sportivo's food stand with table service, then free dancing every night under the pavilion, from Occitan folk dances to a DJ, a live band and a liscio orchestra.

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Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Cena evento a 6 mani

A one-off 'six-hands' dinner: several chefs each cook their own dishes, paired with Agliano Terme wines, outdoors at BAart.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Festa Patronale di San Bartolomeo — Rinco

Montiglio Monferrato

Four late-August evenings in the hilltop hamlet of Rinco for its patron San Bartolomeo: the Circolo Sportivo's food stand with table service, then free dancing every night under the pavilion, from Occitan folk dances to a DJ, a live band and a liscio orchestra.

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An international organ festival in Asti Cathedral: four Friday-evening concerts between late July and late August on the cathedral's two historic organs, leading up to and following the feast of the Assumption.

Sagra della Tagliatella al Tartufo

Three days in Cortazzone built around one plate: fresh tagliatella dressed with truffle. Food stands and music each evening.

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Festa Patronale di San Bartolomeo — Rinco

Montiglio Monferrato

Four late-August evenings in the hilltop hamlet of Rinco for its patron San Bartolomeo: the Circolo Sportivo's food stand with table service, then free dancing every night under the pavilion, from Occitan folk dances to a DJ, a live band and a liscio orchestra.

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Sagra del Polentone di Molare

Molare's most-loved sagra: three late-August evenings of Pro Loco cooking in Piazza Dario Pesce that build to the scodellamento — a huge cauldron of polenta tipped steaming onto a long wooden table for the whole valley to share.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Sagra del Tajarin cun l'Oca

A Ferragosto food festival in the hamlet of San Candido di Murisengo built around tajarin cun l'oca — the fine Piedmontese egg noodles dressed with a slow goose ragù — with gastronomic stands, live music and village games across four August days.

Accademia Internazionale di Mandolino e Chitarra

For a week each summer the Accademia Internazionale Italiana di Mandolino e Chitarra takes over a hotel in Acqui — players of every level study with Carlo Aonzo and his faculty, and the week opens to the public for two concerts, an ensemble evening and a grand-orchestra finale.

Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's feast of its patron San Lorenzo: three August evenings of the Pro Loco's food stand under cover in Via Stazione, with traditional dishes, pizza and truffle tastings ('Non solo tartufi!'), dancing and a funfair, then a concert in the Romanesque Pieve di San Lorenzo on 14 August and the feast of San Rocco two days later.

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Monferrato Classic Festival

Vignale Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Vignale strand: young-talent classical recitals on August Sundays at half past five, in the Chiesa dell'Addolorata.

Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Sagra del Tajarin cun l'Oca

A Ferragosto food festival in the hamlet of San Candido di Murisengo built around tajarin cun l'oca — the fine Piedmontese egg noodles dressed with a slow goose ragù — with gastronomic stands, live music and village games across four August days.

Festa Patronale di Carentino — Santa Maria Assunta

Carentino's patronal feast for Santa Maria Assunta, the village's patron: a mid-August festa run by the Pro Loco Carentinese around Ferragosto, with village-wide dinners — trofie al pesto the headline dish — tombola and entertainment for all ages.

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Il Mercatino dell'Antico

Castelnuovo Don Bosco

More than 200 antiques stalls line Viale Regina Margherita for Ferragosto, part of Castelnuovo Don Bosco's celebrations for its patron, Saint Roch.

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Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Sagra del Tajarin cun l'Oca

A Ferragosto food festival in the hamlet of San Candido di Murisengo built around tajarin cun l'oca — the fine Piedmontese egg noodles dressed with a slow goose ragù — with gastronomic stands, live music and village games across four August days.

esta della Madonna d'agosto 2026

Rocchetta Tanaro

Rocchetta Tanaro keeps its patronal feast, the Festa della Madonna d'agosto — several days in mid-August of food and community events.

Ferragosto Sbagliato

Dinner and live music at the Circolo Sportivo in Agliano Terme, around Ferragosto.

Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's feast of its patron San Lorenzo: three August evenings of the Pro Loco's food stand under cover in Via Stazione, with traditional dishes, pizza and truffle tastings ('Non solo tartufi!'), dancing and a funfair, then a concert in the Romanesque Pieve di San Lorenzo on 14 August and the feast of San Rocco two days later.

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Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Sagra del Tajarin cun l'Oca

A Ferragosto food festival in the hamlet of San Candido di Murisengo built around tajarin cun l'oca — the fine Piedmontese egg noodles dressed with a slow goose ragù — with gastronomic stands, live music and village games across four August days.

Ferragosto Incisiano

Incisa Scapaccino

Incisa Scapaccino's mid-August feast: four days of communal dinners, music and rides that build to the Fiera del Tacchino, del Bestiame e delle Macchine Agricole — the turkey, livestock and farm-machinery fair — on the Sunday morning.

Festa patronale di Grana Monferrato

Grana Monferrato

Grana's patronal festival runs four nights of typical food and music, centred on Ferragosto (15 Aug).

I giovedì di Via Principe

Every Thursday evening through summer, Via Principe Amedeo closes to cars and the local food shops set out aperitivo and dinner while a band plays.

Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Calici di Stelle a Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

The night of San Lorenzo, 10 August, spent at a long open-air table in Costigliole's main square — local kitchens, the town winery's wine, music, and the Perseids overhead.

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Notte di Stelle e Ruché

Castagnole Monferrato

An August-night walk along the Via del Ruchè — vineyard road lit by tasting stops, live music and a lantern release, timed to the shooting stars of San Lorenzo.

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Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's feast of its patron San Lorenzo: three August evenings of the Pro Loco's food stand under cover in Via Stazione, with traditional dishes, pizza and truffle tastings ('Non solo tartufi!'), dancing and a funfair, then a concert in the Romanesque Pieve di San Lorenzo on 14 August and the feast of San Rocco two days later.

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Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

Monferrato Classic Festival

Vignale Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Vignale strand: young-talent classical recitals on August Sundays at half past five, in the Chiesa dell'Addolorata.

Acqui Wine Days

Three August evenings when Acqui's old town becomes an open-air tasting room — Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG and Moscato d'Asti poured among Roman ruins and Renaissance courtyards, with tango under the stars and a wine-and-astronomy night at the castle.

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Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's feast of its patron San Lorenzo: three August evenings of the Pro Loco's food stand under cover in Via Stazione, with traditional dishes, pizza and truffle tastings ('Non solo tartufi!'), dancing and a funfair, then a concert in the Romanesque Pieve di San Lorenzo on 14 August and the feast of San Rocco two days later.

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Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Olbicella (Molare)

The August patronal feast of San Lorenzo, run by the Pro Loco di Olbicella in Molare's upper Orba valley: two evenings of food stands and dancing, then the saint's day itself on 10 August with mass, procession and a last night at the stand.

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Grignolino sotto le Stelle

Rosignano Monferrato

Rosignano's summer wine night: a candlelit tasting dinner in Piazza XI Settembre pairing local Grignolino DOC with Monferrato cooking, on the second Saturday of August.

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ORSOLINA 28 ART FOUNDATION - Stagione 2026 Danza e Musica

The Orsolina 28 Art Foundation's 2026 dance-and-music season, up in the hills above Moncalvo — a curated run of performances that grow out of the foundation's artist residencies.

Moncalvo's summer street festival in the lanes (vicoli) of the old town: a gin night in Piazza Garibaldi, then an evening of food, wine and live music spread through the streets, with a free headline concert.

C'era una volta... La Festa dei Borghi

Nizza Monferrato

A three-day neighbourhood festa in Nizza — the Pro Loco's belecauda, ravioli and grill, ballroom and DJ nights, an open-air family film, and beach-volley in the oratory grounds.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Festa Patronale di San Lorenzo — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's feast of its patron San Lorenzo: three August evenings of the Pro Loco's food stand under cover in Via Stazione, with traditional dishes, pizza and truffle tastings ('Non solo tartufi!'), dancing and a funfair, then a concert in the Romanesque Pieve di San Lorenzo on 14 August and the feast of San Rocco two days later.

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Il Borgo dei Desideri

Cocconato's evening for 'Il Borgo dei Desideri', the August night of wishes held across I Borghi più belli d'Italia: a dinner under the stars in Piazza Cavour and a wishing well run by the tourist office.

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An international organ festival in Asti Cathedral: four Friday-evening concerts between late July and late August on the cathedral's two historic organs, leading up to and following the feast of the Assumption.

Moncalvo's summer street festival in the lanes (vicoli) of the old town: a gin night in Piazza Garibaldi, then an evening of food, wine and live music spread through the streets, with a free headline concert.

I giovedì di Via Principe

Every Thursday evening through summer, Via Principe Amedeo closes to cars and the local food shops set out aperitivo and dinner while a band plays.

Cassinasco Festa d'Estate

Six nights of village feasting up at Cassinasco in the Moscato hills above Canelli — a different dinner each evening (fassona tagliata, a fish night, bollito) with tribute bands and DJ sets.

Festa patronale di Vigliano d'Asti

Vigliano d'Asti

Vigliano d'Asti's patronal festa: sporting events, food, wine and music.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna

Castagnole Monferrato

Castagnole Monferrato's patronal feast for Sant'Anna — a Pro Loco weekend at the start of August with a gastronomic stand of Monferrato cooking, live music and, in past years, a Ruchè cycle ride through the vineyards.

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Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Raduno statico auto, moto e trattori d'epoca, Sessant

A one-day static show of classic cars, motorbikes and tractors built up to 1985, with breakfast and a shared lunch, in Sessant, a hamlet of Asti, held in memory of Silvano Risso and Roberto Cacia.

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Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Festa Patronale di San Giacomo — Banengo

Montiglio Monferrato

Banengo, the frazione of Montiglio known as the 'village of the gnomes', celebrates its patron San Giacomo (St James) at the start of August with three or four evenings of food from the Circolo's stand, live music or a DJ, invitation bocce matches and a funfair.

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Festa Patronale di Santo Stefano

Antignano d'Asti

The Santo Stefano patronal festival brings four evenings of food and live music.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna

Castagnole Monferrato

Castagnole Monferrato's patronal feast for Sant'Anna — a Pro Loco weekend at the start of August with a gastronomic stand of Monferrato cooking, live music and, in past years, a Ruchè cycle ride through the vineyards.

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Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

La Notte Romantica nei Borghi più belli d'Italia

Mombaldone's turn at the national Notte Romantica of the Borghi più belli d'Italia: a craft market, roving food-and-wine tastings, a concert and a photo show through the medieval centre.

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Loazzolo un paese in festa

A summer festival that takes over all of Loazzolo, with music, typical dishes and the local wines poured along the streets.

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Mostra "NININ - Sangue del Vostro Sangue" — Gioele Sasha Staltari

A summer contemporary-art show in Agliano Terme — 'NININ - Sangue del Vostro Sangue' by Gioele Sasha Staltari, on from the start of August through mid-September.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

ORSOLINA 28 ART FOUNDATION - Stagione 2026 Danza e Musica

The Orsolina 28 Art Foundation's 2026 dance-and-music season, up in the hills above Moncalvo — a curated run of performances that grow out of the foundation's artist residencies.

Rassegna teatrale "A fa mej na bela ghignada pitost che..."

A Piedmontese-dialect theatre festival at the Palamenta in Piovà Massaia, on the first Saturday of each month from June to October.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Il 20° Round — Nuovo Birrificio Nicese

Nizza Monferrato

Two days of craft beer, street food and live music out at Cascina La Barbatella's vineyard on the edge of Nizza — the Nuovo Birrificio Nicese's 20th 'Round', with bands, DJ sets and La Barbatella's bubbles.

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Langhet en Festa — Camo

Four evenings of Moscato-hill village feasting in tiny Camo, just over the hill from Canelli — gnocchi, grilled costine, friciule and local wine, live bands each night, and a Sunday Vespa run through the vineyards.

An international organ festival in Asti Cathedral: four Friday-evening concerts between late July and late August on the cathedral's two historic organs, leading up to and following the feast of the Assumption.

Sagra del Peperone

Costigliole d'Asti

Four days of pepper in the frazione of Motta di Costigliole: communal dinners, music, shows and an evening 'Squared Pepper Market'.

I giovedì di Via Principe

Every Thursday evening through summer, Via Principe Amedeo closes to cars and the local food shops set out aperitivo and dinner while a band plays.

Barbera Summer Festival 2026

Costigliole d'Asti

Five July evenings of wine, food and music at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Canelli in Teatro Summer

Canelli's theatre season stretches into summer, run by the Fondazione Egri, carrying contemporary dance and theatre out of the Teatro Balbo and into venues across town.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Sagra dell'Acciuga al Verde — Sant'Anna di Montiglio

Montiglio Monferrato

The frazione of Sant'Anna celebrates its patron saint with four late-July evenings of acciughe al verde, anchovies in green parsley-and-garlic sauce, plus antipasti, pizza, a fish fry and dancing to liscio orchestras, ending with Mass and a torchlight procession on St Anne's day.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna — Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

The patronal feast of the frazione of Sant'Anna in Costigliole d'Asti: four late-July evenings of themed dinners — paella, gran fritto misto alla piemontese, a polentata — with agnolotti every night and live music and dancing.

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Sagra dell'Acciuga al Verde — Sant'Anna di Montiglio

Montiglio Monferrato

The frazione of Sant'Anna celebrates its patron saint with four late-July evenings of acciughe al verde, anchovies in green parsley-and-garlic sauce, plus antipasti, pizza, a fish fry and dancing to liscio orchestras, ending with Mass and a torchlight procession on St Anne's day.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Concerto di Ferragosto a Vezzolano

The ensemble La Ghironda plays ancient music inside Santa Maria di Vezzolano, the Romanesque abbey — the canonica — of the name.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna — Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

The patronal feast of the frazione of Sant'Anna in Costigliole d'Asti: four late-July evenings of themed dinners — paella, gran fritto misto alla piemontese, a polentata — with agnolotti every night and live music and dancing.

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Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Sagra dell'Acciuga al Verde — Sant'Anna di Montiglio

Montiglio Monferrato

The frazione of Sant'Anna celebrates its patron saint with four late-July evenings of acciughe al verde, anchovies in green parsley-and-garlic sauce, plus antipasti, pizza, a fish fry and dancing to liscio orchestras, ending with Mass and a torchlight procession on St Anne's day.

Teatro e Colline — Alfieri nel Borgo Unesco

A theatre-and-landscape festival in the UNESCO hill-borgo of Calamandrana Alta, where shows, walking performances, installations, workshops and encounters play out in courtyards, churches, gardens and a new open-air amphitheatre.

Cena in Bianco con Concerto

Incisa Scapaccino

A one-night dinner in white — long tables in Borgo Villa on 25 July, everyone dressed head to toe in white, followed by a jazz set from trumpeter Felice Reggio.

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Cinema in the Vineyards

Il Cinema in Vigna: a free open-air film night in the Bava family's Vigna di Cadodo at Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato, beside the little church of Santi Pietro e Paolo.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Festa Patronale di San Cristoforo

Corsione honours its patron San Cristoforo with food stands and dancing in Piazza IV Novembre.

Festa Patronale di Santo Stefano

Montegrosso d'Asti

Santo Stefano di Montegrosso d'Asti, a hamlet, celebrates its patron over three evenings of food, music, folklore and shows.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna — Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

The patronal feast of the frazione of Sant'Anna in Costigliole d'Asti: four late-July evenings of themed dinners — paella, gran fritto misto alla piemontese, a polentata — with agnolotti every night and live music and dancing.

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Villanova d'Asti

Villanova d'Asti's patronal festival — a week of religious talks and choral concerts — ends with the Infiorata, artworks made of flower petals laid on the streets.

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La Notte Romantica nei Borghi più belli d'Italia

Cocconato's evening for the national Notte Romantica of I Borghi più belli d'Italia: a set romantic dinner from the Pro Loco Pro Cocco in the Cortile del Collegio, with Robiola di Cocconato on the menu and the official 'Pensiero d'Amore' dessert.

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Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

ORSOLINA 28 ART FOUNDATION - Stagione 2026 Danza e Musica

The Orsolina 28 Art Foundation's 2026 dance-and-music season, up in the hills above Moncalvo — a curated run of performances that grow out of the foundation's artist residencies.

Sagra dell'Acciuga al Verde — Sant'Anna di Montiglio

Montiglio Monferrato

The frazione of Sant'Anna celebrates its patron saint with four late-July evenings of acciughe al verde, anchovies in green parsley-and-garlic sauce, plus antipasti, pizza, a fish fry and dancing to liscio orchestras, ending with Mass and a torchlight procession on St Anne's day.

Teatro e Colline — Alfieri nel Borgo Unesco

A theatre-and-landscape festival in the UNESCO hill-borgo of Calamandrana Alta, where shows, walking performances, installations, workshops and encounters play out in courtyards, churches, gardens and a new open-air amphitheatre.

Teatro sotto le stelle

Castagnole Monferrato

Teatro sotto le stelle is open-air amateur theatre in Castagnole Monferrato — four Saturday-evening comedies by local companies in the Cortile dei Camminatori courtyard.

Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna 2026

Aramengo's Sant'Anna patronal festival runs three nights of food, music and theatre.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Anna — Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

The patronal feast of the frazione of Sant'Anna in Costigliole d'Asti: four late-July evenings of themed dinners — paella, gran fritto misto alla piemontese, a polentata — with agnolotti every night and live music and dancing.

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Festeggiamenti Patronali Belveglio 2026

Three evenings of music and entertainment for Belveglio's patronal festa.

Mostra "Giochi da Tavolo dal dopoguerra agli anni '80"

Franco Semenzin's vintage board games, postwar to the 1980s, shown at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Sagra del Fritto misto alla Gorzanese

San Damiano d'Asti

The hamlet of Gorzano fries up the classic Piedmontese fritto misto for its sagra, served with regional specialities and live dance orchestras over several evenings.

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Sagra dell'Acciuga al Verde — Sant'Anna di Montiglio

Montiglio Monferrato

The frazione of Sant'Anna celebrates its patron saint with four late-July evenings of acciughe al verde, anchovies in green parsley-and-garlic sauce, plus antipasti, pizza, a fish fry and dancing to liscio orchestras, ending with Mass and a torchlight procession on St Anne's day.

Teatro e Colline — Alfieri nel Borgo Unesco

A theatre-and-landscape festival in the UNESCO hill-borgo of Calamandrana Alta, where shows, walking performances, installations, workshops and encounters play out in courtyards, churches, gardens and a new open-air amphitheatre.

Canelli in Teatro Summer

Canelli's theatre season stretches into summer, run by the Fondazione Egri, carrying contemporary dance and theatre out of the Teatro Balbo and into venues across town.

Festa Patronale di San Giacomo (Agliano Terme)

Agliano Terme's patron saint week for San Giacomo Maggiore — Saint James the Greater — a run of dinners, dancing, cohort parties and a Luna Park in Piazza Roma that closes with the procession, the solemn Mass and the town band.

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I giovedì di Via Principe

Every Thursday evening through summer, Via Principe Amedeo closes to cars and the local food shops set out aperitivo and dinner while a band plays.

Barbera Summer Festival 2026

Costigliole d'Asti

Five July evenings of wine, food and music at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

Festa Patronale di Santa Maria Maddalena (Mombaruzzo)

Mombaruzzo keeps its patron saint's day on 22 July, the feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, the parish church's namesake up in the old Borgo Castello.

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Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Morrissey at AstiMusica

Morrissey, former frontman of The Smiths, played the AstiMusica stage in Piazza Alfieri on the closing night of the 2026 festival.

Canelli in Teatro Summer

Canelli's theatre season stretches into summer, run by the Fondazione Egri, carrying contemporary dance and theatre out of the Teatro Balbo and into venues across town.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Sagra del Fritto Misto alla Piemontese — Carboneri

Montiglio Monferrato

Three July evenings in the frazione of Carboneri, where the Società Agricola-Operaia fries the full Piedmontese fritto misto, sweet and savoury pieces from steak and liver to apple and amaretti, plus agnolotti, antipasti and desserts, with live music and dancing each night.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Barbatellando the Party

Nizza Monferrato

The Barbatella winery's summer party — an evening of Nizza-country wine, food and live music in the vineyards above Nizza Monferrato.

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Castel Rocchero in Lume

Castel Rocchero

Castel Rocchero in Lume is a candlelit food-and-wine evening walk through the village of Castel Rocchero and its vineyards.

Castello sotto le stelle

Monastero Bormida

Castello sotto le stelle: an evening theatrical tour of castle and village with historical reenactors, plus an aperitif-dinner, in Monastero Bormida.

Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Mostra "Dipingere con la luce"

Montemagno Monferrato

Giorgio Lupano's exhibition 'Dipingere con la luce' at La Casa sul Portone, put on by Associazione MAC.

Mostra "Il mondo messo a fuoco"

Montemagno Monferrato

Romano Sillano's exhibition 'Il mondo messo a fuoco' / 'Strati di agitazione', set in the baroque staircase vaults of Montemagno.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

ORSOLINA 28 ART FOUNDATION - Stagione 2026 Danza e Musica

The Orsolina 28 Art Foundation's 2026 dance-and-music season, up in the hills above Moncalvo — a curated run of performances that grow out of the foundation's artist residencies.

Patronal Feast of San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto's patronal feast (Santa Maria Maddalena): several evenings of food from 7pm with live music, plus a book presentation.

Sagra del Fritto Misto alla Piemontese — Carboneri

Montiglio Monferrato

Three July evenings in the frazione of Carboneri, where the Società Agricola-Operaia fries the full Piedmontese fritto misto, sweet and savoury pieces from steak and liver to apple and amaretti, plus agnolotti, antipasti and desserts, with live music and dancing each night.

Stefano Nazzi: Indagini Live at AstiMusica

Stefano Nazzi brought the live version of his true-crime podcast 'Indagini' to the AstiMusica stage in Piazza Alfieri: a spoken-word evening telling one Italian crime story in detail.

A charity dinner from the Paladini della Buona Cucina: a traditional menu cooked by the Pro Loco di Mongardino, live music from the Auto Buskers, and proceeds to the Pediatrics ward of the Cardinal Massaia hospital in Asti.

Tonco's Pro Loco runs the 'Festa d'Estate' — four evenings in a row of local food from 7pm and live music from 9pm.

Festa Patronale di Boglietto

Costigliole d'Asti

Three mid-July nights in the Boglietto district of Costigliole — tajarin and fritto misto, live orchestras, a luna park and a Sunday mass, all free to walk into.

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Festa Patronale di San Giacomo, Revignano

Revignano, a hamlet in the countryside west of Asti, celebrates its patron St James with three summer evenings of Pro Loco dinners and free live music, including the long-running 'Cena sotto le stelle', dinner under the stars.

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I Percorsi del Gusto

Two evenings of food and wine stops threaded through the streets of Mombaruzzo's ancient Borgo Castello, with live music and DJ sets along the way.

Sagra del Fritto Misto alla Piemontese — Carboneri

Montiglio Monferrato

Three July evenings in the frazione of Carboneri, where the Società Agricola-Operaia fries the full Piedmontese fritto misto, sweet and savoury pieces from steak and liver to apple and amaretti, plus agnolotti, antipasti and desserts, with live music and dancing each night.

Teatro e Colline — Alfieri nel Borgo Unesco

A theatre-and-landscape festival in the UNESCO hill-borgo of Calamandrana Alta, where shows, walking performances, installations, workshops and encounters play out in courtyards, churches, gardens and a new open-air amphitheatre.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

I giovedì di Via Principe

Every Thursday evening through summer, Via Principe Amedeo closes to cars and the local food shops set out aperitivo and dinner while a band plays.

Sagra della Porchetta – Festa Patronale di Tuffo

The patronal feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato: three or four July evenings of spit-roast porchetta and agnolotti from the Circolo THOU's food stand, live music and dancing, a funfair every night, and a procession a few days later.

Giorgia: G Summer tour at AstiMusica

The Italian singer Giorgia brought her 'G Summer' tour to the AstiMusica stage in Piazza Alfieri, with songs from her album 'G' and her best-known hits.

Attraverso Festival a Calamandrana Alta

Each July the touring Attraverso Festival — a summer culture festival across the Langhe, Monferrato, Roero and Appennino Piemontese — brings two evening shows up to the UNESCO hill-borgo of Calamandrana Alta.

Barbera Summer Festival 2026

Costigliole d'Asti

Five July evenings of wine, food and music at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Mostra di Germano Casone "Radici sotto la terra, poesia sotto la pelle"

Castelnuovo Calcea

Germano Casone's sculpture show, 'Radici sotto la terra, poesia sotto la pelle', at the Museo 'L'Anima del Vino' in Castelnuovo Calcea's Centro Enoturistico.

Quadila Festival - Percorsi di senso

A cross-disciplinary cultural festival — performances, concerts, talks, screenings, walks and street theatre — across Albugnano and nearby Basso Monferrato villages.

Musical Maestro

Musical Maestro's third edition, a live performing-arts training festival in Canelli with 'On Stage' and 'Behind the Scenes' tracks plus public shows.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

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Sagra della Porchetta – Festa Patronale di Tuffo

The patronal feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato: three or four July evenings of spit-roast porchetta and agnolotti from the Circolo THOU's food stand, live music and dancing, a funfair every night, and a procession a few days later.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Sagra della Porchetta – Festa Patronale di Tuffo

The patronal feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato: three or four July evenings of spit-roast porchetta and agnolotti from the Circolo THOU's food stand, live music and dancing, a funfair every night, and a procession a few days later.

Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Festa Contadina at La Viranda

San Marzano Oliveto

A farmers' festival at the La Viranda agriturismo — an afternoon debate on peasant viticulture, then producer stands, a shared dinner on the aia, and music into the night.

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Sagra della Porchetta – Festa Patronale di Tuffo

The patronal feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato: three or four July evenings of spit-roast porchetta and agnolotti from the Circolo THOU's food stand, live music and dancing, a funfair every night, and a procession a few days later.

Teatro sotto le stelle

Castagnole Monferrato

Teatro sotto le stelle is open-air amateur theatre in Castagnole Monferrato — four Saturday-evening comedies by local companies in the Cortile dei Camminatori courtyard.

Canelli Città del Vino

For one July weekend, the birthplace of Italian sparkling wine becomes an open-air cellar — tastings, masterclasses down in the UNESCO 'Cattedrali Sotterranee', and music through the historic centre.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Eventi estivi Calosso

Calosso's summer programme of open-air evenings at the Nuova Polisportiva Calossese sports ground in Piana del Salto: village theatre, tribute and cover concerts, and food nights with grilled skewers or chili before the band.

Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

Fiera di San Guido — Acqui Terme

Acqui Terme's patronal feast for San Guido, its bishop-saint: mid-July days of religious celebrations around the 12 July feast, married to a big town fair — market stalls through the centre, a luna park, food stands and a fireworks night by the Roman Arches.

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Monferrato on Stage (San Marzano Oliveto)

San Marzano Oliveto

Once a summer the travelling Monferrato on Stage festival sets up in Piazza Giovanni XXIII — a free open-air concert, a Pro Loco food area from 7:30pm, and Barbera d'Asti poured by the consortium.

Mostra "TerraMare" — Roberto Di Giorgio

Nizza Monferrato

Roberto Di Giorgio's ceramics take over Palazzo Crova in Nizza Monferrato for a short run — stoneware, porcelain, majolica and raku, worked at low and high temperatures.

Sagra della Porchetta – Festa Patronale di Tuffo

The patronal feast of the Madonna del Carmine in Tuffo, a hamlet of Cocconato: three or four July evenings of spit-roast porchetta and agnolotti from the Circolo THOU's food stand, live music and dancing, a funfair every night, and a procession a few days later.

Vertigo Summer Festival Cocconato

An international festival of contemporary circus and street theatre that fills Cocconato's piazzas and courtyards for a long weekend in July, with dozens of free shows, all booked in advance.

Circus & street theatre festival

Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

Barbera Summer Festival 2026

Costigliole d'Asti

Five July evenings of wine, food and music at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

A month of summer sport in Piazza Gancia — beach football, volleyball and tennis tournaments, with things laid on for children.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

Summer nightsLocal

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Festival Cacciano

Moncalvo's summer festival of dance and music under the stars, played free in the town's squares and courtyards and named for the local painter Guglielmo Caccia.

Monferrato Classic Festival — Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Monferrato Classic Festival's Montemagno strand: free young-talent classical recitals on Sunday afternoons in the baroque parish church of Santi Martino e Stefano — in July and again on every Sunday of October.

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Raduno d'Auto d'Epoca — Memorial Loris Costantin, Carboneri

Montiglio Monferrato

A one-day vintage-car rally in the frazione of Carboneri each July, held in memory of Loris Costantin: classic cars gather in the piazza, set off on a tour of the Monferrato hills with a stop at a winery, and come back for lunch from the Società Agricola-Operaia and the prize-giving.

Sagra della Carpionata del Trebbiatore — Colcavagno

Montiglio Monferrato

Colcavagno's patronal festa in early July, when the Pro Loco serves the 'thresher's carpionata', the summer carpione of chicken, egg, courgettes and salmon trout marinated after frying, with three nights of music from a 90s party and a Vasco Rossi tribute to liscio dancing.

Cammina Cammina

The Pro Loco di Calosso's traditional early-summer evening walk: about 7 km through the Moscato d'Asti vineyards, farmsteads and woods around Calosso, ending with dinner at the La Canova farm and winery.

Food & wine walk

Fuori Festival al Diavolo Rosso

A fringe festival to AstiMusica at the Diavolo Rosso, a live-music and culture venue in Piazza San Martino: every day for two weeks in July, talks, meetings and concerts by emerging, independent and guest artists from late afternoon into the evening.

Music & culture festival

Museo e Dintorni – Calosso's crotin open weekends

On selected weekends from early summer to early October, Calosso opens its village museum 'Memorie di Futuro' and a set of crotin, the cellars cut into the tufa under the old houses, with a welcome glass of Moscato or Calosso DOC and the panoramic stairways up to the castle park.

Rassegna teatrale "A fa mej na bela ghignada pitost che..."

A Piedmontese-dialect theatre festival at the Palamenta in Piovà Massaia, on the first Saturday of each month from June to October.

Sagra della Carpionata del Trebbiatore — Colcavagno

Montiglio Monferrato

Colcavagno's patronal festa in early July, when the Pro Loco serves the 'thresher's carpionata', the summer carpione of chicken, egg, courgettes and salmon trout marinated after frying, with three nights of music from a 90s party and a Vasco Rossi tribute to liscio dancing.

Grazzano Badoglio

Grazzano Badoglio's own summer sagra: three evenings in Piazza Cotti with the Pro Loco kitchen, dancing, and a night of local theatre, named for Aleramo — the marquis whose abbey stands up the hill.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Sagra della Carpionata del Trebbiatore — Colcavagno

Montiglio Monferrato

Colcavagno's patronal festa in early July, when the Pro Loco serves the 'thresher's carpionata', the summer carpione of chicken, egg, courgettes and salmon trout marinated after frying, with three nights of music from a 90s party and a Vasco Rossi tribute to liscio dancing.

Terre da Film Festival

A summer film festival in Canelli: free workshops, games and dancing over several days, building to evenings of short-film screenings.

Asti's early-summer opera festival, run by the Comune with Lirica Tamagno: five evenings between late May and early July of opera, sacred music and recitals in the Teatro Alfieri, the courtyard of the Biblioteca Astense, churches and other places around the city.

Barbera Summer Festival 2026

Costigliole d'Asti

Five July evenings of wine, food and music at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

Mercoledì dei Produttori

Montegrosso d'Asti

Wednesday-evening dinners with local winemakers at 'Treno tra le Vigne', looking out over the UNESCO vineyard hills, run by Nuova Pro Loco Montegrosso.

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

InterHarmony International Music Festival

For a month each summer Acqui's churches fill with chamber music and orchestral concerts as the InterHarmony International Music Festival brings faculty and young musicians from around the world to study and perform here.

Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

Summer nightsLocal

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Sagra del Fiazein — Battagliosi (Molare)

The summer sagra of Battagliosi, a hamlet of Molare: on a late-June Sunday afternoon the Pro Loco di Battagliosi-Albareto cooks fiazein non-stop, served with draught beer, music and a free gimkana for children.

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

Teatro sotto le stelle

Castagnole Monferrato

Teatro sotto le stelle is open-air amateur theatre in Castagnole Monferrato — four Saturday-evening comedies by local companies in the Cortile dei Camminatori courtyard.

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Portami Via Festival

A travelling festival of readings, talks, screenings, theatre and music that threads through Canelli and neighbouring valley towns, built around Resistance memory and the Constitution.

Cultural festival

Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Vignale in Danza

Vignale Monferrato

Dancers fill the high gardens of Palazzo Callori on summer nights — the international dance festival that's animated Vignale since 1978, from June through All Saints' Day.

Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Monfrà Jazz Fest

Casale Monferrato

Three June evenings of headline jazz under the concrete shell of the Paraboloide in Casale, with the festival spilling out across the Monferrato hills through the summer.

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Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

Summer nightsLocal

Sagra dell'Agnolotto

Cerrina Monferrato

Cerrina's summer food sagra, held with the San Giovanni patronal feast — the Pro Loco kitchen turns out the local agnolotti over several June evenings, with live music, sport and a luna park.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Asti's early-summer opera festival, run by the Comune with Lirica Tamagno: five evenings between late May and early July of opera, sacred music and recitals in the Teatro Alfieri, the courtyard of the Biblioteca Astense, churches and other places around the city.

Dalle corti ai cortili del Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Three evenings of live music for the summer solstice in the private courtyards and gardens of Montiglio's old castle borgo, opened for the occasion: Italian songwriter tributes, pop, jazz and early music, with pay-what-you-like entry and very limited seats.

Sagra dell'Agnolotto

Cerrina Monferrato

Cerrina's summer food sagra, held with the San Giovanni patronal feast — the Pro Loco kitchen turns out the local agnolotti over several June evenings, with live music, sport and a luna park.

Vesparaduno di Calosso

Calosso's yearly Vespa rally on a Sunday in June: riders sign in on Piazza Sant'Alessandro for breakfast, ride out on a scenic loop through the vineyard hills with an aperitivo at a farmstead, and finish with lunch in the village.

Dalle corti ai cortili del Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Three evenings of live music for the summer solstice in the private courtyards and gardens of Montiglio's old castle borgo, opened for the occasion: Italian songwriter tributes, pop, jazz and early music, with pay-what-you-like entry and very limited seats.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Festa delle Cucine Monferrine

Fifteen or so Pro Loco associations take over Moncalvo's historic centre for a weekend, each cooking the Monferrato dishes its own village is known for.

L'Assedio di Canelli

For one weekend in June, Canelli's old town climbs back to 1613, the year it held off the Savoy siege — a costumed reenactment of markets, soldiers, music and street theatre through the historic borgo.

Historical reenactment

Sagra dell'Agnolotto

Cerrina Monferrato

Cerrina's summer food sagra, held with the San Giovanni patronal feast — the Pro Loco kitchen turns out the local agnolotti over several June evenings, with live music, sport and a luna park.

Teatro sotto le stelle

Castagnole Monferrato

Teatro sotto le stelle is open-air amateur theatre in Castagnole Monferrato — four Saturday-evening comedies by local companies in the Cortile dei Camminatori courtyard.

Trail Running Calosso – Memorial Chicco Migliardi

A non-competitive 7.5 km trail run and walk on a loop through the vineyards and paths around Calosso, first held in June 2026 in memory of Chicco Migliardi, with refreshments at the finish.

Dalle corti ai cortili del Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Three evenings of live music for the summer solstice in the private courtyards and gardens of Montiglio's old castle borgo, opened for the occasion: Italian songwriter tributes, pop, jazz and early music, with pay-what-you-like entry and very limited seats.

Sagra dell'Agnolotto

Cerrina Monferrato

Cerrina's summer food sagra, held with the San Giovanni patronal feast — the Pro Loco kitchen turns out the local agnolotti over several June evenings, with live music, sport and a luna park.

Festa a Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Four June nights in Piazza Umberto I — the town band, street food, traditional Piedmontese dinners, flag-throwers and dance bands into the small hours.

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Notte Fuori Nizza

Nizza Monferrato

A Tuesday-night summer party out among the wheat fields on the edge of Nizza — street food from eight, a different local winery pouring each week, and a DJ set under the stars from half ten.

Summer nightsLocal

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Fiera del Tartufo Nero "Trifola nOiR" di Murisengo

Murisengo's summer counterpart to its famous white-truffle fair: a new fair devoted to the black summer truffle (Tuber aestivum), held over the first two weekends of June to open the warm-season truffle hunt in the Monferrato hills.

Asti's early-summer opera festival, run by the Comune with Lirica Tamagno: five evenings between late May and early July of opera, sacred music and recitals in the Teatro Alfieri, the courtyard of the Biblioteca Astense, churches and other places around the city.

Mercatino in Piazza Roma

A Saturday afternoon-and-evening market of vintage goods, hobbyists' stalls, crafts and local food in Piazza Roma, in the centre of Asti, organised by Gruppo Azzurro Asti.

Sagra del Gran Fritto Misto di Pesce

Castagnole Monferrato

A June weekend when a landlocked wine village fries the sea — platters of gran fritto misto under the arches of the Cortile dei Camminatori, poured with Monferrato red, run by the Pro Loco.

Fiera del Tartufo Nero "Trifola nOiR" di Murisengo

Murisengo's summer counterpart to its famous white-truffle fair: a new fair devoted to the black summer truffle (Tuber aestivum), held over the first two weekends of June to open the warm-season truffle hunt in the Monferrato hills.

Corsa delle Botti & Monferrato in Tavola

Nizza Monferrato

Teams race wine barrels through the historic centre, and alongside runs 'Monferrato in Tavola' — the local Pro Loco's open-air food-and-wine fair of Monferrato specialities.

E... Che sia... Spettacolo — Attori alla ribalta

A summer season of ten evenings of amateur theatre by companies from the Asti area, mostly comedies, staged in Asti's social clubs, a village square and an estate in Mongardino, with free entry and a collection.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Monferrato ad Alta Voce

Grazzano Badoglio

Three June days of reading aloud, jazz and theatre in Grazzano Badoglio, each edition built around a single theme and staged in the village's old courtyards and the abbey forecourt.

Cultural festival

Monferrato on Stage (Cocconato)

Cocconato's stop on Monferrato on Stage, the travelling summer festival of free concerts with local food: an early-June evening with a food area in Piazza Statuto and a headline concert in the Cortile del Collegio.

One of Italy's longest-running theatre festivals, held by the Comune di Asti every June since 1979: about ten days of new Italian and international theatre, dance and street performance in the city's theatres, palazzo courtyards and piazzas.

Theatre festival

Asti's early-summer opera festival, run by the Comune with Lirica Tamagno: five evenings between late May and early July of opera, sacred music and recitals in the Teatro Alfieri, the courtyard of the Biblioteca Astense, churches and other places around the city.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Mostra "Geografia interna" Beatriz Basso

'Geografia interna', works by Beatriz Basso at the BAart space — a former confraternity in Agliano Terme — part of the DegustArt art-and-wine calendar with the Consorzio Barbera d'Asti.

Fiera del Tartufo Nero "Trifola nOiR" di Murisengo

Murisengo's summer counterpart to its famous white-truffle fair: a new fair devoted to the black summer truffle (Tuber aestivum), held over the first two weekends of June to open the warm-season truffle hunt in the Monferrato hills.

Fuma C'Anduma — Camminata Enogastronomica

A gentle four-kilometre walk through Canelli's vineyards with four food stops along the way — Piedmontese dishes matched to Barbera and Moscato, and dancing after dark.

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Mercatino in Piazza Roma

A Saturday afternoon-and-evening market of vintage goods, hobbyists' stalls, crafts and local food in Piazza Roma, in the centre of Asti, organised by Gruppo Azzurro Asti.

Fiera del Tartufo Nero "Trifola nOiR" di Murisengo

Murisengo's summer counterpart to its famous white-truffle fair: a new fair devoted to the black summer truffle (Tuber aestivum), held over the first two weekends of June to open the warm-season truffle hunt in the Monferrato hills.

Acqui Terme Romana

For one June weekend Acqui Terme leans into its Roman name — Aquae Statiellae — with a costumed procession, reenactors, family workshops and a dinner of dishes that reach back two thousand years.

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Connections — mostra al Castello del Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

A free summer contemporary-art show in the Manica Lunga of the Castello del Monferrato — ten artists on the theme of the ties between living things and their environment, open weekends through the end of August.

Rassegna teatrale "A fa mej na bela ghignada pitost che..."

A Piedmontese-dialect theatre festival at the Palamenta in Piovà Massaia, on the first Saturday of each month from June to October.

Passepartout Festival

The Biblioteca Astense's festival of ideas, held every June since 2004: a week of evening talks in the library courtyard, where writers, historians, journalists, scientists and public figures discuss a theme chosen for the year.

Festival of ideas

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Mostra "Lupus in Fabula et in Natura"

'Lupus in Fabula et in Natura', an exhibition on the wolf in reality and imagination, put on by the Fra Guglielmo Massaia Association in Piovà Massaia.

Asti's early-summer opera festival, run by the Comune with Lirica Tamagno: five evenings between late May and early July of opera, sacred music and recitals in the Teatro Alfieri, the courtyard of the Biblioteca Astense, churches and other places around the city.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Pane al Pane — Elogio del Pane Monferrino

Montemagno Monferrato

A three-day spring sagra through Montemagno's medieval lanes celebrating Monferrato bread — above all the Grissia Monferrina — with tastings, street food, art, seminars on ancient grains, and a flag-wavers procession.

An easy 4 km evening walk through Canelli, no clock involved, finishing with pizza and music in the piazza.

Barbera Fish Festival

Four days in Agliano Terme built on an unlikely pairing that works: Barbera d'Asti and Norwegian cod — baccalà and stoccafisso — with masterclass dinners, street food and music.

Food & wine festival

Asti's spring jazz festival, run by the Comune with the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte: a handful of evening concerts in May at the Teatro Alfieri and the Sala Pastrone, with names from the Italian and international scene at low ticket prices.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Calici in Cortile

Cerrina Monferrato

A late-spring wine walk through Cerrina — itinerant tastings in the village courtyards, food stands and live music along the streets, over a late-May weekend.

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CocCogito – Festival della Filosofia in Collina

Cocconato's philosophy festival: a Sunday in May of talks by philosophers, writers and historians in the Cortile del Collegio, with a few days of philosophy workshops for local schoolchildren beforehand.

Calici in Cortile

Cerrina Monferrato

A late-spring wine walk through Cerrina — itinerant tastings in the village courtyards, food stands and live music along the streets, over a late-May weekend.

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Rosignano Monferrato

A late-May weekend where Rosignano fills the Teatro Ideal and its streets with fine embroidery — an international needlework show, wrapped in wine tastings, art and a rose-themed lunch.

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Asti's spring jazz festival, run by the Comune with the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte: a handful of evening concerts in May at the Teatro Alfieri and the Sala Pastrone, with names from the Italian and international scene at low ticket prices.

Appuntamenti con la Rossa

Barbera fills the calendar in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners through summer 2026, then post-harvest events in the borgate come October.

Eno-Bike Tour di Calosso

A guided spring afternoon ride for e-mountain bikes: a 25 km loop with about 600 m of climbing through the hills around Calosso, with a stop at one of the Crota 'd Calos wineries for a tasting.

Festa di Primavera — Natura e Benessere

Canelli's spring market is built around nature and wellbeing — stalls of flowers, wellness products and local artisan goods.

Passeggiando per Montiglio Monferrato — Golosaria food walk

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's own contribution to the Golosaria weekend in May: a self-guided walk of about 8 km through the hills from Montiglio to Rinco with food stops cooked by the Pro Loco and the frazione clubs, plus a Saturday supper, a Sunday lunch, a local producers' market, open Romanesque churches and small exhibitions around the village.

Food & wine walk

Sergio Unia. Sculture e disegni. La donazione

An exhibition at Palazzo Alfieri of 26 plaster sculptures and 26 drawings by the Turin sculptor Sergio Unia, works from the 1980s to today that he donated to Asti's Fondazione Eugenio Guglielminetti.

Festa del Ruchè

Castagnole Monferrato

A weekend given over to Ruchè di Castagnole Monferrato DOCG — the aromatic red poured by its own growers in the frescoed halls of a 17th-century estate, in the village where the grape comes home.

Festa Patronale di Sant'Antonino

Moncalvo's patron-saint weekend in May — the Stra-Moncalvo run, Pro Loco food stands, a funfair on the main square and open churches full of Caccia paintings.

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Golosaria a Casale Monferrato

Casale Monferrato

For one May weekend the Castello del Monferrato becomes the hub of Golosaria — 'Barbera & Champagne', a food festival and street-food kitchens filling the halls, courtyards and bastions of the star-shaped fortress.

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Golosaria a Grazzano Badoglio

Grazzano Badoglio

For the Golosaria weekend in May, Grazzano opens Aleramo's abbey and pours its six wineries — a masterclass on the white wines of the tufo, tamburello in the square, and the Zuppa dell'Abate handed out on the church steps.

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Golosaria nel Monferrato — Murisen-GO!

Murisengo is the home base of Golosaria nel Monferrato — Paolo Massobrio's spring food, wine and culture roadshow across the Monferrato hills — hosting a day of guided nature walks, art, a producers' market in Piazza Boario and an outdoor dinner under the banner "Murisen-GO!".

Passeggiando per Montiglio Monferrato — Golosaria food walk

Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio's own contribution to the Golosaria weekend in May: a self-guided walk of about 8 km through the hills from Montiglio to Rinco with food stops cooked by the Pro Loco and the frazione clubs, plus a Saturday supper, a Sunday lunch, a local producers' market, open Romanesque churches and small exhibitions around the village.

Food & wine walk

Golosaria tra i Castelli del Monferrato

Monferrato (Asti & Alessandria)

For one May weekend, dozens of Monferrato castles, historic houses, cellars and churches open at once across forty-plus comuni — food, wine and local producers, all under Paolo Massobrio's roving Golosaria banner.

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Sagra dl'Articiòch

Costigliole d'Asti

A weekend for the local artichoke — the Carciofo Astigiano della Valtiglione e del Sorì, a Slow Food Presidio — with farmers' stalls, themed menus and music in Costigliole's old centre.

Asti's spring jazz festival, run by the Comune with the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte: a handful of evening concerts in May at the Teatro Alfieri and the Sala Pastrone, with names from the Italian and international scene at low ticket prices.

Festa di San Secondo

Asti's patron-saint festivities in early May, which open the Palio year: a night procession in medieval costume and the oath of the Palio rectors, fireworks over the Tanaro, and on the first Tuesday of May the city's offering of a Palio banner to the Collegiata di San Secondo, followed by the 'poor man's soup' in the piazza.

Asti's spring jazz festival, run by the Comune with the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo as part of the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte: a handful of evening concerts in May at the Teatro Alfieri and the Sala Pastrone, with names from the Italian and international scene at low ticket prices.

Masterclass 2026 (BAart, Agliano Terme)

BAart's 2026 masterclass season in Agliano Terme: eight guided evenings from May to early November. Sommeliers and cheese tasters lead blind flights and pairing dinners, from old Agliano Barbera to Barolo and Barbaresco.

Wine masterclass

Nizza è Barbera

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza Monferrato's big spring wine weekend: four days when the town becomes the capital of Barbera d'Asti and Nizza DOCG, with the 'Barbera Forum' gathering 70+ producers and 400+ labels for public tastings.

Fiera Carolingia

Asti's biggest street fair, held on the Wednesday after the feast of San Secondo: for one day, from dawn to dusk, hundreds of stalls selling everything from clothes and household goods to food and plants fill the squares and streets of the historic centre.

Festa di San Secondo

Asti's patron-saint festivities in early May, which open the Palio year: a night procession in medieval costume and the oath of the Palio rectors, fireworks over the Tanaro, and on the first Tuesday of May the city's offering of a Palio banner to the Collegiata di San Secondo, followed by the 'poor man's soup' in the piazza.

Festa di San Secondo

Asti's patron-saint festivities in early May, which open the Palio year: a night procession in medieval costume and the oath of the Palio rectors, fireworks over the Tanaro, and on the first Tuesday of May the city's offering of a Palio banner to the Collegiata di San Secondo, followed by the 'poor man's soup' in the piazza.

Festa di San Secondo

Asti's patron-saint festivities in early May, which open the Palio year: a night procession in medieval costume and the oath of the Palio rectors, fireworks over the Tanaro, and on the first Tuesday of May the city's offering of a Palio banner to the Collegiata di San Secondo, followed by the 'poor man's soup' in the piazza.

Festa di San Secondo

Asti's patron-saint festivities in early May, which open the Palio year: a night procession in medieval costume and the oath of the Palio rectors, fireworks over the Tanaro, and on the first Tuesday of May the city's offering of a Palio banner to the Collegiata di San Secondo, followed by the 'poor man's soup' in the piazza.

Costigliole d'Asti

A white-wine event in the Castello di Costigliole given over to Chardonnay and Moscato d'Asti DOCG — over 100 producers, masterclasses and tastings in the castle rooms and towers, with Champagne as the guest of honour.

Cocco...Wine Stories

The spring sibling of Cocco...Wine: on 1 May Cocconato's historic centre hosts a day of tastings, talks and masterclasses titled 'Messaggi in bottiglia', with the wineries grouped into themed areas, each with its own enoteca.

L'arte del tessuto, il tessuto nell'arte

A free exhibition at Palazzo Mazzetti on textiles and fashion in Piedmont, from historical Palio costumes and police and Carabinieri uniforms to work by fashion students and pieces made by local craft firms.

Nizza Monferrato

Two spring Sundays when the cellars of the Nizza DOCG zone throw open their doors and you drive the ridge roads from producer to producer, tasting Nizza and Nizza Riserva at the source.

Riviera in Fiera – Antica Fiera di San Marco

Cocconato's old spring fair on 25 April: 'Riviera in fiera — aria e sole, salumi e robiole'. Artisans and producers line Via Roma and Corso Pinin Giachino, the village associations serve lunch under the arcades, and there are exhibitions, a wellness area, bike and walking tours and children's activities.

Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Fiera del Santo Cristo

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's big spring fair turns on agriculture and country life: farm, wine, gardening and earth-moving machinery on show, plus a huge town-wide market, food stalls and the amateur 'Giro del Nizza' cycling event.

Nizza Monferrato

Two spring Sundays when the cellars of the Nizza DOCG zone throw open their doors and you drive the ridge roads from producer to producer, tasting Nizza and Nizza Riserva at the source.

Tradizionale Polentone di Calosso

The Pro Loco's spring polenta lunch in Calosso: a big pot of polenta stirred on the spot and served free to everyone with stew, sausage, hard-boiled eggs and a glass of Barbera, with bugie to finish. Donations collected during the lunch go to village causes.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Antica Giostra del Pitu

One of the Astigiano's most theatrical old rites: a costumed procession, a mock trial of a turkey conducted in Piedmontese dialect, and a horseback contest between Tonco's seven quarters.

Historical reenactment

Fiera di Primavera di Asti

Asti's spring street fair: on a Sunday at the start of April some three hundred stalls line Piazza Alfieri, Piazza Libertà and the main streets of the centre from early morning until evening, with the shops open and entertainment for children.

Grignolino: il Nobile Ribelle

Grazzano Badoglio

A weekend devoted to Grignolino — the pale, tannic, contrary red that Monferrato loves and outsiders underrate — with a hundred-plus producers pouring at Grazzano Badoglio.

Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Echi di un mondo perduto: Floriana Porta at the Museo Paleontologico

About thirty watercolours by the Turin painter Floriana Porta, shown among the fossils of Asti's Paleontological Museum: women's portraits, ferns and the long-vanished sea that once covered the Astigiano.

Costigliole d'Asti

A fortnight in Costigliole d'Asti given to Barbera and the local table — tasting menus at the town's restaurants, sommelier-led blind tastings, castle visits and art.

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Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Mostra Nazionale di San Giuseppe

Casale Monferrato

Casale's big spring trade fair — ten days at the Pala Fiere with 150-plus exhibitors of food, wine, crafts and flowers, plus one of Piedmont's largest travelling funfairs next door in Piazza d'Armi.

Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Commemorazione del Carabiniere Scapaccino

Incisa Scapaccino

Each February, on the anniversary of his birth, Incisa lays a wreath for Giovanni Battista Scapaccino — the local man who became the first Carabiniere awarded Italy's Gold Medal for Military Valour.

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Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Fritto Misto alla Bazzanese (Bazzana, Mombaruzzo)

A late-January winter supper of Piedmontese fritto misto, made the Bazzana way, cooked by the Pro Loco Amici di Bazzana in its hall in Bazzana di Mombaruzzo. Places are limited and booking is required.

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Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Stagione Teatrale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole's winter theatre season — a run of comedies and one-act plays by regional amateur companies, Saturday and Sunday evenings from January into April.

Natale a San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco's Christmas season in San Marzano Oliveto runs from early December to Epiphany. Over a handful of dates there are tombole in the village, a polenta lunch or a nativity play in some years, and an Epiphany concert in the parish church to close.

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Natale a San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco's Christmas season in San Marzano Oliveto runs from early December to Epiphany. Over a handful of dates there are tombole in the village, a polenta lunch or a nativity play in some years, and an Epiphany concert in the parish church to close.

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Concerto di Capodanno in Duomo

Casale Monferrato

Casale's traditional New Year's Day concert: on the afternoon of 1 January the cathedral of Sant'Evasio hosts a free programme of sacred music on a Marian theme, with the bishop's Mass and Te Deum after it.

Natale a Moncalvo

Moncalvo's December programme of Christmas events, put together by the comune with local associations: an afternoon for children waiting for Father Christmas, choir and band concerts in the churches and the theatre, and a living nativity on Christmas Eve before midnight mass.

Natale a San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco's Christmas season in San Marzano Oliveto runs from early December to Epiphany. Over a handful of dates there are tombole in the village, a polenta lunch or a nativity play in some years, and an Epiphany concert in the parish church to close.

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Natale a Moncalvo

Moncalvo's December programme of Christmas events, put together by the comune with local associations: an afternoon for children waiting for Father Christmas, choir and band concerts in the churches and the theatre, and a living nativity on Christmas Eve before midnight mass.

Natale a Moncalvo

Moncalvo's December programme of Christmas events, put together by the comune with local associations: an afternoon for children waiting for Father Christmas, choir and band concerts in the churches and the theatre, and a living nativity on Christmas Eve before midnight mass.

Aspettando il Natale a Calosso

Calosso's Christmas weekend just before the holiday: the crotin under the old centre open with a nativity scene in each, presepi around the village, the 'Casa di plastica' dressed for Christmas, and Father Christmas at the Teatro Comunale with sweets and hot chocolate for children.

Natale a San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco's Christmas season in San Marzano Oliveto runs from early December to Epiphany. Over a handful of dates there are tombole in the village, a polenta lunch or a nativity play in some years, and an Epiphany concert in the parish church to close.

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Natale a Moncalvo

Moncalvo's December programme of Christmas events, put together by the comune with local associations: an afternoon for children waiting for Father Christmas, choir and band concerts in the churches and the theatre, and a living nativity on Christmas Eve before midnight mass.

Mercatino di Natale di Calamandrana

A village Christmas market in Piazza Dante, launched in 2024 by the Comune, the Pro Loco, the library and the 'Le colline della cultura' association — craft and gift stalls, local-food tastings and children's activities in the centre of Calamandrana.

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Natale a Moncalvo

Moncalvo's December programme of Christmas events, put together by the comune with local associations: an afternoon for children waiting for Father Christmas, choir and band concerts in the churches and the theatre, and a living nativity on Christmas Eve before midnight mass.

Un Albero per Molare

Molare's pre-Christmas village festa on a mid-December Saturday afternoon: Christmas trees decorated by the local schoolchildren are shown on the parish church steps, followed by games, entertainment and a merenda for everyone in Piazza Marconi.

Nizza è Natale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's Christmas programme — lights, chalets, concerts, shows and children's activities — running the historic centre from early December to Epiphany.

Camminando nel Presepe

Rosignano Monferrato

From 8 December to Epiphany, the hamlets of Rosignano wear an open-air Nativity: a walking trail of eighty-odd painted panels strung along the lanes of Colma and Garriano, best seen lit up after dark.

Natale a San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

The Pro Loco's Christmas season in San Marzano Oliveto runs from early December to Epiphany. Over a handful of dates there are tombole in the village, a polenta lunch or a nativity play in some years, and an Epiphany concert in the parish church to close.

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Natale a Vignale

Vignale Monferrato

Vignale's Christmas day out: a market and related festivities in Piazza del Popolo, free and open to all, when the hill-town centre puts on its December best.

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Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Il Natale passa da AcQui

Acqui Terme's Christmas season: nearly two months of festive lights, market stalls and shopping across Piazza Italia and the centre, with an ice rink, Father Christmas's house and the Pro Loco's big international nativity exhibition.

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Celebrazione della Virgo Fidelis (Incisa Scapaccino)

Incisa Scapaccino

Each year around 21 November the Carabinieri gather at the Santuario della Virgo Fidelis in Incisa Scapaccino for a Mass in honour of their patron, the Virgin 'faithful through the ages'.

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Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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La Bagna Cauda De.Co. di Vignale

Vignale Monferrato

Vignale calls itself the capital of bagna cauda, and for a November weekend the Pro Loco proves it — communal tables of the De.Co.-certified dish, the garlic-and-anchovy pot bubbling at the oratorio on Via Roma.

Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Bagna càuda nelle frazioni — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

Every November Montiglio's frazioni take turns to serve bagna càuda, the hot garlic-and-anchovy dip of Piedmont's cold months: the Società Agricola Operaia at Sant'Anna, Banengo, and the Pro Loco of Colcavagno, which runs a series of 'Bagna Cauda Days' over two weekends.

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Fiera del Tartufo di Mombaruzzo

A one-day November truffle fair in Mombaruzzo, billed since 2025 as the Fiera del Tartufo Bianco dell'Alto Monferrato. There's a white-truffle show and judging, a food-and-craft market through the borgo, a truffle walk and a truffle hunt.

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Stagione Teatrale al Teatro Sociale

Nizza Monferrato

Nizza's winter unfolds one evening at a time at the historic Teatro Sociale — a subscription run of prose plays and comedies staged with Piemonte dal Vivo.

Cisrò d'Aicq — Pro Loco di Acqui Terme

One late-October Sunday the Pro Loco di Acqui Terme cooks the Cisrò d'Aicq, the town's traditional chickpea-and-pork-rind soup, and serves it from 11:30 at the Alpini hall in Piazza Don Dolermo, to eat at the tables or take away, until it runs out.

Non solo nocciole — Colcavagno

Montiglio Monferrato

'Not just hazelnuts': an autumn food day in the frazione of Colcavagno, one of the yearly events on Montiglio's calendar, falling between the summer feste and the truffle fair.

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Festa Patronale di Sant'Antonio Abate — Murisengo

Murisengo's patronal feast honours Sant'Antonio Abate, to whom the parish church is dedicated. The village keeps it over the first weekend of September, with evening food stands in Piazza della Vittoria, live music, a luna park and a closing firework show.

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Montemagno in Festa — Festa Patronale

Montemagno Monferrato

Montemagno's summer patronal village festival, held over a weekend in the park of the Castello di Montemagno with orchestra and disco evenings, food stands and a market.

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Festa Patronale di Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti

Costigliole d'Asti's August patronal feast — four days opened by the town band in the castle park, with traditional Piedmontese dinners in Piazza Umberto I, street food, a Luna Park and dancing every evening.

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Cocco...Beer & Street Food

A late-May Saturday night on Via Roma: craft breweries from the area, street food from the Pro Loco Pro Cocco, then live music and a DJ set into the night.

Beer & street food

A spring tasting day devoted to Calosso DOC, the red made from the rare Gamba di Pernice grape: the denomination's producers pour more than ten vintages on the terrace of the village's municipal enoteca, Crota 'd Calos, with cheese and local food.

Camminata Colline degli Amaretti (Mombaruzzo)

Every spring Mombaruzzo, the village of soft amaretti, holds a 13 km guided walk on the hills around the town. It's mostly on dirt tracks, starts early in the morning from the sports ground and finishes with a refreshment stop.

Carnevale di Sant'Anna — Montiglio Monferrato

Montiglio Monferrato

The carnival of the frazione of Sant'Anna, a long-running local tradition that reached its 64th edition in 2025, held on a Sunday in early spring.

A winter Sunday when the Pro Loco di Calosso fries the friciule of the Fiera del Rapulé, the puffed squares of fried dough eaten with cooked salame, with gorgonzola, or sweet with Nutella.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

La Via del Presepe (Mombaruzzo)

Over the Christmas holidays Mombaruzzo's old workers' society theatre becomes 'La Via del Presepe'. A seven-stage path tells the story of the town's Chiesetta del Presepio, alongside nativity scenes the villagers build inside wooden crates.

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Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Natale a Canelli

Canelli's December programme, 'Dicembre in festa': a craft Christmas market in the Salone Riccadonna, the town band's Christmas concert and a gospel night at the Teatro Balbo, and Father Christmas afternoons for children in Piazza Cavour.

Alè Chocolate — Alessandria

Alessandria's artisan-chocolate fair: for three autumn days master chocolatiers of the ACAI association set up along Corso Roma, Piazzetta della Lega and Via dei Martiri, with tastings, chocolate dishes in the city's restaurants and children's activities.

Bagna Cauda della Pro Loco di Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Pro Loco di Montemagno's autumn bagna cauda: a Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch in the village oratorio, with the anchovy-and-garlic dip served over raw and cooked vegetables and a full Piedmontese menu around it.

Bagna Cauda della Pro Loco di Montemagno

Montemagno Monferrato

The Pro Loco di Montemagno's autumn bagna cauda: a Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch in the village oratorio, with the anchovy-and-garlic dip served over raw and cooked vegetables and a full Piedmontese menu around it.

Nizza è Estate

Nizza Monferrato

The town's summer series of evening concerts and shows in Piazza del Municipio, mostly free.

Nizza è Estate

Nizza Monferrato

The town's summer series of evening concerts and shows in Piazza del Municipio, mostly free.

Nizza è Estate

Nizza Monferrato

The town's summer series of evening concerts and shows in Piazza del Municipio, mostly free.

Festa Patronale del Quartino e Fiera del Bestiame

The patronal festival of the Quartino district of Calamandrana closes each year with the Fiera del Bestiame, a historic livestock fair held on the first Monday of August — one of the oldest cattle fairs in the Belbo valley.

Festa Patronale del Quartino e Fiera del Bestiame

The patronal festival of the Quartino district of Calamandrana closes each year with the Fiera del Bestiame, a historic livestock fair held on the first Monday of August — one of the oldest cattle fairs in the Belbo valley.

Festa Patronale del Quartino e Fiera del Bestiame

The patronal festival of the Quartino district of Calamandrana closes each year with the Fiera del Bestiame, a historic livestock fair held on the first Monday of August — one of the oldest cattle fairs in the Belbo valley.

Festa Patronale del Quartino e Fiera del Bestiame

The patronal festival of the Quartino district of Calamandrana closes each year with the Fiera del Bestiame, a historic livestock fair held on the first Monday of August — one of the oldest cattle fairs in the Belbo valley.

Nizza è Estate

Nizza Monferrato

The town's summer series of evening concerts and shows in Piazza del Municipio, mostly free.

Nizza è Estate

Nizza Monferrato

The town's summer series of evening concerts and shows in Piazza del Municipio, mostly free.

Mercatino di Natale di San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto

San Marzano Oliveto's Christmas market, run by the Pro Loco in the town centre around 8 December — artisan and food stalls, roving music and things for the children, the opening move of the village's Christmas programme.

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Festa Patronale di San Feliciano (Incisa Scapaccino)

Incisa Scapaccino

Incisa marks its patron, San Feliciano, on 8 June — in recent years with a free evening concert in the Chiesa del Carmine.

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Festa Patronale dell'Assunta

Tonco's patron-saint feast around Ferragosto — the Fiaccolata dell'Assunta with the historic La Bersagliera band, several evenings of music and dancing, and the Pro Loco's agnolotti in the centre of the village.

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Incisa 1514 — Rievocazione Storica

Incisa Scapaccino

A medieval reenactment that turns the Borgo Villa quarter of Incisa Scapaccino back to 1514 — crafts, flag-wavers, falconry, taverns and, at nightfall, the siege of the castle and the trial of Marquis Oddone d'Incisa.

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