Pijé ën castagna! (Corsione)
An October Sunday in Corsione's Piazza IV Novembre: a small market, a cheap farmers' lunch of pasta and beans, the village's traditional apple cake and a big chestnut roast in the afternoon.
Why it's special
It's the village's autumn get-together, cooked by its own Pro Loco and mutual-aid society, and it brings back the 'turta 'd pum', Corsione's traditional apple cake.
Programme · 2026
Organised by the Pro Loco, the SOMS (Società Agricola Operaia) and the Comune di Corsione, with UNPLI. Bar open all day.
- Lunch is €10 and starts at noon; the roast chestnuts are served from 15:00 until they run out, so don't come too late.
- The bar is open all day.
- Information: +39 392 8093337, +39 347 0023118, +39 328 9671269.
Corsione, a hill village of about two hundred people north of Asti, keeps its autumn festa in mid-October. The Pro Loco, the village's Società Agricola Operaia and the Comune set up in Piazza IV Novembre for the day.
A small market runs from morning to late afternoon. At lunchtime the Pro Loco serves the Pranzo del Contadino, a farmers' lunch of pasta with beans and little omelettes with wine, and brings back the turta 'd pum, Corsione's traditional apple cake. In the afternoon comes the castagnata, roast chestnuts handed out until they're gone.
In late July the same square holds Corsione's patronal feast of San Cristoforo.