Events & festivals in Monferrato

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

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

Retrospective exhibition 'Sergio Unia. Sculture e disegni. La donazione' at Palazzo Alfieri, Asti, showing 26 plaster sculptures and 26 drawings donated by Turin sculptor Sergio Unia to the Guglielminetti Foundation.

Cultural side-festival at Diavolo Rosso (Piazza San Martino) running alongside AstiMusica, with talks linking music, innovation, psychology and rights, live performances by emerging and established artists, industry meetings and a photographic exhibition on AstiMusica's history.

Multi-disciplinary cultural festival with performances, concerts, talks, screenings, walks and street theatre across Albugnano and neighbouring Basso Monferrato villages.

AstiMusica summer festival concert in Piazza Alfieri, Asti — Italian rock band Bluvertigo performing on their 'Esseri umani' tour with the reunited original line-up.

Live stage show by Stefano Nazzi, creator of the true-crime podcast 'Indagini', at Piazza Alfieri as part of the AstiMusica festival.

Charity dinner organised by the Paladini della Buona Cucina with a traditional menu cooked by the Pro Loco di Mongardino and live music by the Auto Buskers; proceeds go to the Pediatrics ward of the Cardinal Massaia hospital in Asti.

Tonco's 'Festa d'Estate' by the local Pro Loco — four consecutive evenings of local food (from 7pm) and live music (from 9pm).

Patronal festival of San Giacomo in Revignano, a hamlet of Asti, with three nights of food and dancing.

A two-evening enogastronomic itinerary through the streets of the ancient Borgo Castello of Mombaruzzo, pairing food and wine stops with live music and DJ sets.

Nizza's traditional weekly open-air market fills the central squares every Friday morning with food, fruit and vegetables, local produce, clothing and household stalls.

Three-day fritto misto alla Piemontese festival in the hamlet of Carboneri, with the classic mixed fried dish, other gastronomic specialities and music.

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

Castel Rocchero in Lume — a candlelit enogastronomic evening walk through the village and vineyards of Castel Rocchero.

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

Art exhibition 'Dipingere con la luce' by Giorgio Lupano at La Casa sul Portone, organised by Associazione MAC.

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

The 2026 dance-and-music season of the Orsolina 28 Art Foundation in the hills above Moncalvo — a curated programme of performances born from the foundation's artist residencies.

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

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

A long-running monthly antiques and vintage market that fills Nizza's arcaded Piazza Garibaldi with 350+ vendors — from fine antiques to rustic Piedmontese furniture, prints, vinyl and collectibles.

A temporary ceramics exhibition by Roberto Di Giorgio at Palazzo Crova, Nizza Monferrato — stoneware, porcelain, majolica and raku across low- and high-temperature techniques.

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

Teatro sotto le stelle is an open-air amateur theatre festival in Castagnole Monferrato: four Saturday-evening comedy performances by local companies in the Cortile dei Camminatori courtyard.

'Geografia interna', an exhibition of 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.

A wine-food-music festival at the hilltop Anfiteatro di San Michele in Costigliole d'Asti, across five July evenings with live music, Barbera tastings and Pro Loco dishes.

A summer entertainment series in Calosso blending theatre, tribute/cover concerts and themed dinners with live music at the sports ground.

A weekly summer Thursday-evening street event: Via Principe Amedeo goes pedestrian and local food shops serve aperitivo and dinner with live music.

Summer amateur-theatre review 'E... Che sia... Spettacolo - Attori alla ribalta', now in its ninth edition, staging brilliant comedies and Piedmontese-language plays across Asti, Castagnole delle Lanze and Mongardino.

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

Exhibition 'L'arte del tessuto, il tessuto nell'arte' at Palazzo Mazzetti, Asti, marking 20 years of the Castigliano Institute fashion programme.

A season-long celebration of Barbera in Agliano Terme — some nineteen weekends of tastings, guided winery tours and vineyard dinners across summer 2026, with post-harvest borgata events in October.

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

Art exhibition of works by Antonio Guarene on Asti and its Palio, at the Palio Museum (Archivio Storico).

Concert by Morrissey (former frontman of The Smiths) at Piazza Alfieri, Asti, as part of the AstiMusica festival.

The summer extension of Canelli's theatre season, by the Fondazione Egri, bringing contemporary dance and theatre out of the Teatro Balbo into venues across the town.

Sant'Anna patronal festival in Aramengo with three nights of food, music and theatre.

Patronal festivities with three evenings of music and entertainment.

Exhibition of Franco Semenzin's vintage board games (postwar to 1980s) at the Associazione Culturale Retrò in Viarigi.

Traditional fried-food sagra in the hamlet of Gorzano celebrating the classic Piedmontese fritto misto, paired with regional specialities and live dance orchestras across several evenings.

Open-air cinema evening in a historic vineyard of the Bava winery family, combining a film screening with wine and cocktail (vermouth) tastings.

Patron saint festival of San Cristoforo in Corsione with food stands and dancing in Piazza IV Novembre.

The patronal feast of the hamlet of Santo Stefano di Montegrosso d'Asti — three evenings of food, music, folklore and shows.

Patronal festival in Villanova d'Asti culminating in an Infiorata (flower-carpet artworks) plus a week of religious talks and choral concerts.

Cocconato's edition of the national 'Notte Romantica' in the Borghi più belli d'Italia: music, poetry and a Romantic Dinner in the village centre.

A monthly antiques and collectibles flea market held all day on Piazza Alfieri in Asti, with vendors of vintage items, furniture and collectibles.

Ancient-music concert by the ensemble La Ghironda at the Romanesque abbey (canonica) of Santa Maria di Vezzolano.