Festivals and Historic events in Tuscany

Come and experience all colours, sounds and tastes of Middle Ages diving for the past at Monteriggioni (Siena)!!!

Monte San Savino, a beautiful "borgo" located extaclty mid distance between Siena and Arezzo, promotes every year the Porchetta Festival... an amazing (and delicious) typical Italian experience!

Carnival in Tuscany, Italy is not only a time to bring out the famous Venetian customs with colorful masks and long flowing robes - but also a national holiday to poke holes at their political machine. No one does it better than the folk at Viareggio in Tuscany.

Many important folkloric events take place in Pisa along the year, like: the LUMINARA di San Ranieri (the night of 16th June, the whole town is illuminated to celebrate the patron saint of Pisa...

The old fishermen’s village of Porto Santo Stefano organizes every year a traditional rowboat race between 4 districts of the Argentario – this amazing southern Tuscan peninsula connected to the continent by two natural strips of land.

Certaldo, in the Province of Florence, the birth town of Boccaccio, holds a well preserved medieval center that hides not only Boccaccio’s home but also many Folkloric events.

The most famous and impressive medieval horse race in Tuscany and the whole Italy, the Palio of Siena tells us about this majestic city and its fabulous history...

Arezzo has a famous historic pagent twice a year an antique jousting match from the Medieval times and played all the way up until XVIII secolo, it was brought back in 1931.

Another spectacular reenactment similar to the Palio of Siena is in Pistoia, called "Giostra dell'Orso" - that can be translated as the Joust of the Bear.

Roam through the medieval streets of the town of Poppi and enjoy visiting private cantinas furnished with antique wine gear and bottles and bottles of Italian - and more often than not - Tuscan wines.  The entire town opens its doors and gardens, exploiting their natural resource: a beautifully restored town.

The battle that took place at Scannagallo - Pozzo della Chiana on the year 1554 was a real, bloody battle which guaranteed the superiority of Florence over Siena. To remind that important date the Association Scannagallo promotes a realistic historical reconstruction where the audience can see all details of that event and time.