Accounts and highlights of some of the more famous events, feste and sagre in Abruzzo (View the handy annual calendar list and our #PopUpAbruzzo events)
I felt compelled to visit Chieti’s La processione del Venerdì Santo, Italy's oldest Easter Good Friday procession after a friend said how it'd make the hairs on my neck stand up
Francavilla al Mare’s Carnevale d’Abruzzo had but 5 tractor-pulled floats but for sheer numbers of gappy smiles it shone like there is no tomorrow
Dog-sled is not something I’d imagine I’d be a spectator to, but then Abruzzo throws up all sorts of unexpected surprises as ‘alternative’ days out
The Wicker Man & Montezuma’s sacrificial Aztec fires popped into mind at first glance of Tossicia’s vast log pyramid ready to be lit in praise of San Antonio
