Events in Monferrato — August 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.