A young pair from Bologna in vintage dress, with vintage instruments livened up this year’s Umbria Jazz Winter Festival in Orvieto with 1940’s and 1950’s rock n’ roll and country music. Their…
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Every winter, Pino and I head to Orvieto for Umbria Jazz Winter: Dec 30th 2025 to January 3rd, 2026 this year. We had tickets for a jazz concert for the afternoon of…
For some years now, Assisi has celebrated Christmas with illuminations on the facades of Assisi’s medieval churches and civic buildings. A favorite this year is the Rene Magritte image on the facade…
“San Martino, San Martino, castagne e vino.” Oh, yes: chestnuts and wine for the November 11th Feast of St. Martin.-But not just any chestnuts and wine. We have roasted chestnuts with new red…
It’s always a joy to tour with Becky and Marcello and the small groups they bring to Italy. On a recent trip with a most pleasant group, we headed to Deruta for…
In Assisi on November 4th, civic authorities, a band, military representatives and jubilant school children all gathered to celebrate the Giornata dell’Unità Nazionale e delle Forze Armate (“Day of National Unity and…
Just about every two years since 1961, thousands have joined in an October march for peace from Perugia to Assisi (about 24 km), promoted by Aldo Capitini, philosopher who had named the…
Almost every saints’ feast day in Italy is followed the day after with a huge outdoor market, la fiera. The Feast of St.Francis in Assisi is on October 4th and our fiera is on…
The Festa dell’Uva in late September in Panicale offers far more than top wines from the celebrated grapes in three days of enticing events. Wine, logicamente, stars in this “festival of the grapes”…
In early August for four days, medieval music starred in Assisi in a rich array of exhibitions, concerts, lectures and in musical performances. Medieval instruments were on sale, too, for this event…