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.
Why it's special
It's the whole hilltop turned into an open-air stage on summer nights — tango and street dance in Piazza Garibaldi, a gospel choir in one square, a swing septet in another — and every night is free. The name honours Guglielmo Caccia, the Moncalvo painter whose work still hangs in the town's churches.
Programme · 2026
Free admission; performances at 21:30. Theme: "Danza e Musica sotto le stelle" (Dance and Music under the Stars).
- Everything's free and outdoors, and most shows start around 21:30 — bring a light layer for when the hills cool off.
- Line-up and any weather moves to the Teatro Civico are posted by the comune; check before you set out.
Come summer, Moncalvo puts the show outdoors. Through July and August its squares and courtyards fill on the warm nights — a tango company one evening, a street-dance battle the next, a gospel choir or a swing septet after that — and none of it costs a thing.
The festival takes its name from Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo, the painter born here whose altarpieces you can still find in the town's churches. That's the through-line: art made in Moncalvo, celebrated in Moncalvo. August is its traditional home, but recent editions have stretched it: in 2025, for the 400th anniversary of Caccia's death, it opened in July and ran all the way to a November concert in the church of San Francesco.
Shows start around half past nine, when the hills have cooled. Bring a layer and check the comune's line-up before you drive up — dates above.