Events in Monferrato — June 2026

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.