FESTIVALS & FEASTS

From celebrations of snails to beer-soaked festivities, visit these five historic celebrations

1 SAGRA DEL PESCE CAMOGLI, ITALY Like some of the other festivals featured here, Italy’s sagra have their origins in religious feasts and date back hundreds of years. Initially occasions to venerate particular saints, across the centuries, these festivals gradually became more focussed on celebrating an area’s produce. For example Sagra dell’Uva, held in Marino near Rome, celebrates the humble grape. The most famous sagra are those that celebrate truffles, such as Alba’s Fiera Internazionale del Tartufo Bianco d’Alba – the White Truffle Festival. The Sagra del Pesce is held every year in the fishing village of Camogli in northern Italy. The festival is in honour of San Fortunato, the patron saint of fishermen, and pays homage to the village’s long history of seafaring. A highlight of the festival is…

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