Events in Monferrato — July 2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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