keeping you connected to Abruzzo – Italy’s rocky heart!
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 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.
To read our reviews of events and regional-wide events click here and a list of the key sagre in Abruzzo.
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Opi: Fiaccolata, Polentata e Vin Brule’
7 January @ 19:00 - 23:00 CET
The small community of Opi dress up in traditional clothes at dusk and with hand-held flickering torches feast and light up the night the day after Epiphany. First, they sip hot chocolate, feast on polenta, and mulled wine and then neighbours and friends and family walk together and 21.00 to banish the dark and cold with a torch-lit procession around the town.
Opi is located 1250 metres above sea level within the Abruzzo, Molise and Lazio National Park, set in a natural amphitheatre of imposing mountains full of beach woods with plenty of old mule tracks to explore. Its name services from the Roman fertility goddess Ops, meaning plenty.
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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