I missed the Festa di Scienza e Filosofia in Foligno this year. Here’s a note I wrote on that “only-in-Italy!” event the first time I attended: Where else can you join a Saturday night…
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We always tell our apartment guests that the best eating – and at the most economical prices – is at the evening food festivals of the small villages, le sagre. Our favorite…
For the Feast of Corpus Domini – sixty days after Easter – floral splendor carpets the medieval alleyways of hilltown gem, Spello, for their stunning festival, le Infiorate. Depending on the year’s climactic conditions, la…
At the end of December, people from all over Italy head to that medieval gem, Orvieto, to take in five days of jazz, blues – and not only. We never miss a…
No where we’d ever be at the end of December except in Orvieto for the Umbria Jazz Winter festival. During our late December Orvieto stay, we never miss the jazz lunches at…
For years, we’ve celebrated our late December anniversary in Orvieto at Umbria Jazz Winter. We always stay a couple days in the home of Signora Liliana (nearly ninety years old!) and take…
New this year at the late December Umbria Jazz Winter festival in Orvieto: spaghetti whipped up on stage for the public as the five young musicians of Spaghetti Swing – a Cooking…
Snails are served up not at the proverbial “snail’s pace” but with zip and verve by the earnest young wait staff at the August food festival near Bevagna starring snails, la Sagra…
It was a last-minute decision to head to Macerata, walled Marches hilltown not far from the Adriatic, for opera on an August night – but we weren’t going to miss Puccini’s “Turandot.”…
When in central Italy from spring to late fall, you can’t miss feasting with the “locals” at a sagra (village food festival of local specialties cooked and served up by local volunteers).…