Events calender 

Cultural events:

    • Pesaro - The Rossini Opera Festival 9 to 23 August 2008. Highlights of the 2008 season include Rossini's Ermione and Maometto II and a solo recital by Juan Diego Flórez. Information tel +39 0721 38001 fax +39 0721 3800220. 
       
    • Macerata - The 44nd open-air opera season in the magnificent Sferisterio arena - 24 July to 13 August 2008 - includes Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Manon Lescaut, and Richard Strauss's Salome. tel +39 0733 230735 fax +39 0733 261570.  www.sferisterio.it
       
    • Ancona - The Teatro delle Muse has a strong opera, classical music and jazz season. Full details on www.teatrodellemuse.org
       
    • Fano - Fano Jazz by the Sea - July. tel +39 0721 8292883
       
    • Polverigi - Festival Internazionale Inteatro - contemporary theatre festival - Villa Comunale Nappi - July. tel +39 071 909007
       
    • Ancona - Klezmer Music Festival at the Mole Vanvitelliana - July. tel. +39 071 203045.
       
    • Urbino - Early Music Festival - July. tel +39 0722 309601
       
    • Jesi - Jesi Opera season - Teatro G.B.Pergolesi - end-September to November. tel +39 0731 538351
       
    • San Severino Marche - Blues Festival - July - tel. +39 0733 41252
       
    • Osimo - International Dance Festival - July - Piazza Duomo - tel. +39 071 7249271
       
    • Senigallia - International Piano Competition -Teatro La Fenice - August-September. tel. +39 071 6629350
       
    • Tolentino - Musica e Arte Festival - 23 July to 4 August 2008
       
    • Falerone & Urbisaglia - Teatro Classico - Classical theatre productions staged in two of the Marche's finest Roman amphitheatres - July & August - tel. +39 0734 710115 (Falerone) or +39 0733 506385 (Urbisaglia)
       
    • Amandola - International Theatre Festival - end August to early September. tel. +39 0736 840704
       
    • Castelfidardo - International Accordion Festival early October. One of the world's leading events dedicated to the instrument. Tel +39 071 7829349.
       
    • Ancona - Ancona Jazz Festival - Teatro Sperimentale - early November. tel. +39 071 217 4239
       

Eating events or Sagre:
Pretty well every town and village throughout the Marche has some food or wine event during the summer months. Here are just a few of them :

  • June

    • Pianello (near Cagli) - Sagra della Lumaca (snails) - mid-June
    • Apiro (near Cingoli) - Sagra del formaggio pecorino (pecorino cheese)

    July

    • Sefro (near Camerino) - Festa della Pizza - early July
    • Matelica - Sagra della Rana (frogs)
    • Ostra Vetere (near Corinaldo) - Festa della trota (trout) - earlyJuly
    • Montemarciano (near Senigallia) - Sagra del pesce (fish)
    • Corinaldo - polenta festival on third Sunday in July to commemorate the time when the town's people successfully resisted a siege thanks to copious supplies of the stuff.
    • Sefro (near Camerino) - Festa del Tortellino alla boscaiola (pasta) - late July
    • Castelplanio (near Jesi) - Sagra della crescia sul panaro (stuffed flat bread) - last Sunday of July
    • Ostra Vetere (near Corinaldo) - Sapori ed Aromi di Casa Nostra - late July - local food, music and a procession of old farm machines

    August

    • Monte Vidon Combatte (near Fermo) - Sagra delle quaglie (quails) - 1st Sunday
    • Sassoferrato - Sagra del Cinghiale (wild boar)
    • Cingoli - Sagra di prosciutto e melone
    • San Severino Marche - Sagra della ceca (chick peas)
    • Staffolo (near Cingoli) - Festa del Verdicchio (verdicchio wine festival)
    • Fermo - Sagra delle vongole (shell fish)
    • Serra San Quirico (near Fabriano) - Sagra del coniglio in porchetta (roast rabbit with fennel)
    • Monteprandone (near San Benedetto del Tronto)- Sagra delle olive fritte (fried stuffed olives)
    • Pedaso - Sagra Nazionale delle cozze (mussels)
    • Massignano (near Ascoli Piceno) - Sagra delle frittelle (omelettes)
    • Vererotta (near Ascoli Piceno) - Sagra della vitella allo spiedo (spit-roast veal)
    • Loro Piceno - Sagra del Vin Cotto (a sweet "cooked" wine)

    September

    • Apiro (near Cingoli) - Sagra della polenta
    • Montecassiano - Sagra del pesce (fish)
    • Cupramontana - grape festival in the heart of Verdicchio wine country in September.
    • Piandimileto (near Urbino) - Mushroom fair
    • Lapedona (near Fermo) - Sagra del Vino Cotto (the Marche version of Vin Santo)
    • Fermo - Sagra della Polenta
    • Arcevia - Sagra dell'uva (grape festival)

    October

    • Acqualagna (near Cagli) - Fiera nazionale del tartufo (truffle fair) - last weekend in October and first two weekends in November in the town that calls itself the "truffle capital".
    • Acquasanta Terme (near Ascoli Piceno) - Festa d'autunno (autumn produce)
    • Montemonaco (near Ascoli Piceno) - Sagra della Castagna (chestnut)
    • Castelsantengelo sul Nera (near Visso) - Sagra del Marrone Castellano (chestnut)
    • Sant'Agata Feltria - White Truffle fair
    • Sant'Angelo in Vado (near Urbino) - Mostra del tartufo bianco (white truffle)

    November

    • Talamello (near San Leo) - Formaggio di Fossa cheese fair
    • Acqualagna (near Cagli) - truffle fair - last weekend in October and first three weekends in November in the village that calls itself the "truffle capital".

      Fun & Games:

      • Ascoli Piceno La Quintana - jousting in Ascoli's main square on the first Sunday of August. The most authentic "medieval" goings-on in the Marche.
      • Sarnano Palio - medieval games & drum procession through old town in mid-August
      • Cagli Palio dell'Oca - medieval games to win a golden goose in mid-August.
      • Mondavio Wild Boar Hunt - a medieval chase in the square - very jolly. mid-August.
      • Fermignano Palio della Rana - yes, a race with frogs in wheelbarrows - the joint is really jumpin' on the first Sunday after Easter.



 
 
 
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