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Navelli – Chickpeas, Saffron & the Mother of all Donkey Races

Navelli has a new found growing fame as host to an alternative Palio; the colourful Palio degli Asini –yep a unmissable Donkey Race like no other in the world

Events & Sagre Reviews & Highlights

My Big Fat Ferragosto – Consus and a Story of Grain

My big fat Ferragosto isn’t probably what I should be calling this most pleasurable of Italian feast days, perhaps the Italian summer Christmas, that all began with a God named Consus