Explore the best of our Abruzzo Event calendar this week and this month with our handy list of sagre, feste and events in Chieti, Pescara, Teramo and L’Aquila provinces. Click on any of the map’s pins to discover each fun-filled Abruzzo event that is local to you or deserving of a road trip!  Alternatively, on the desktop version, scroll through the event flyers on the right and click thru to discover the event’s full details.
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Barisciano lights its traditional and very entertaining fire for San Giovanni, this is likely to be something you have never experienced before, we highly recommend a visit!
Throughout Italy fires are lit in celebration of John the Baptist’s birth that sees farming folklore, pagan and Christian incarnations combined to honour the end of the harvest by burning its chaff together with pruned branches to symbolise healing, purification, and fertility. Dancing around the fire and particularly crossing or jumping the fire showed a boldness & pureness of spirit which later became more of a macho proclamation on the jumper’s manhood, as well as supposed magical healing cures for back-pain to eyesight.
There is also the promise of some great arrosticini, panini and beer and music by Stefano Bernardi.
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We will do our best to keep this calendar up to date, however in the case of last-minute cancellations due to adverse weather conditions, Covid outbreaks and so forth this may not always be possible. In these cases, you should contact the event organiser for a refund as we are not responsible for the events on the calendar, only compiling them into an easy list. As soon as we have news from an organiser when any event will be rescheduled we will update the calendar accordingly.
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