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)
Sulmona’s Easter re-enactment of ‘La Madonna che Scappa’ (Running Madonna) is a great reason to swing by this medieval city, famous as the birthplace of Ovid, sugared-almond Confetti and red garlic) on Easter Sunday morning
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
