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Events and
Festivals in Pavia
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January:
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself. City:
Pavia
February:
Gastronomic festival
and free plates of polenta, sausages and fish.
Date: Ash Wednesday
City: Portalbera
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself. City:
Pavia
March:
Wine in the springtime
- a rich program of events including parades of bands, other
types of music, shows of agricultural machinery and the trades
of days gone by, rifle shooting with antique weapons, a
livestock fair, gastronomic spectacles with the distribution of
rice and fritters, plus wine tasting. This wine tasting takes on
particular importance due to the fact that the most popular wine
of the region (il Bonarda) has been produced by these locals for
over 800 years and is acclaimed by critics and casual wine
drinkers alike. City: Rovescala
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself. City:
Pavia
Alessandro Volta
taught as a professor at the University of Pavia between 1778
and 1790 where he created the basis for the modern study of
electricity and discovered the existence of natural gas. The
city has recreated his 18th-century laboratory in detail and has
dedicated many piazzas, streets and an auditorium to the great
man. City: Pavia
La Grande Fiera di Pavia Sapori
(the grand fair of the tastes of Pavia) - three areas meld into
one for this grand occasion: agricultural foods, trade and
crafts from the city of Pavia and the surrounding area. There
are also traditional gastronomic evenings of typical Pavian
food, organized by local restaurants, with spectacular raviolis
and lavish baking. All this great food is washed down with wines
from the Oltrepo Pavese winemakers? consortium. City: Pavia
April:
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself. City:
Pavia
May:
Madonna of the Star,
a procession along the Ticino?s river to remember a famous
legend associated with the Madonna of the Star, which is
conserved in the church of S. Maria di Bethlehem in Borgo
Ticino. A woman with a baby in her arms asked the Captains of
the merchant ships anchored at Venice and bound for Pavia if
they could take her and her child to Borgo Ticino. All but one
refused her. The morning after, the Captain was advised by his
oarsmen that they had reached Pavia without anyone aboard
realizing it. The Captain thought it was a joke, but then,
searching for the woman and her child, found that they had
vanished. On the shore he found footprints which he followed to
the church of S. Maria di Bethlehem. Here he discovered the
statue of the Madonna, whose face was identical to that of the
woman he had taken on board. City: Pavia
Asparagus Festival and Palio of Pigs,
for more than thirty years citizens of this tiny town celebrate
their most important economic staples (asparagus and pigs) with
festivities, stalls, games, and music. City: Cilavegna
Annual Harley Owners Group
Rally annual rally with varying routes and agendas this
growing group of passionate Harley owners. City: Pavia and
thereabouts
June:
The 'Cowboy Guest Ranch' offers rodeos
that feature daredevil acrobatics with professional western
riders, steer roping, Indian dances and competitions, plus one
and two day programs where ordinary city folk can don boots and
cowboy hats and hit the trail with trained guides. Over
campfires, coffee is served in tins, and beans and steaks are
cooked up in the chuck wagon. City: Voghera
Festival of Art
- a two weekends devoted to 'the artists' of the area and closes
down its tiny downtown to allow them to display and sell the
fruits of their toils. The buildings in the center of town are
decorated year-round with over 70 murals .City: Gravellona
Beer show -
with 15,000 participants quaffing down over 4,500 litres of beer
in 10 days, this event is becoming an event to be reckoned with.
Live rock and DJs adds to the ambience as participants visit
exhibitions on body piercing, body art and tattoos while local
motorbike clubs compete in contests of daring and skill. City:
Marcignago
The Battle of Pavia
- a re-enactment of a battle fought in the year 1525 with
authentic uniforms, weapons and pageantry. City: San Genesio
White truffles exhibition.
City: Zavattarello
July
Sagra delle Lasagne,
a passing out of free samples of lasagne cooked in the oven.
City: Romagnese
August:
White Carnival,
this festival celebrates and old legend of an ugly man and an
old woman. Festivities include an imposing parade of decorated
carts, dancers in costumes, ballerinas, live music, popular
games, athletic competitions and demonstrations of antique
crafts (such as dried chestnut beating, basket-making,
knife-grinding, spinning and chair-caning). City: Santa
Margherita di Staffora
Festival of the Ticino (river)
? a three week celebration about every type of palatal, visual
and audible entertainment including operettas, concerts,
readings, art presentations, guided tours of historical and
natural wonders, food, and wine. From the last weekend of August
through Sunday of the second weekend of September. City: Pavia
Saint Augustine?s day,
an eight day-long festival and handicraft fair. City: Pavia
Medieval Exhibition
in Castle of Belgioioso, an international event that covers a
thousand years of medieval life, dress, customs and defence.
Over 100 exhibitors arriving from England, Belgium, France,
Germany and Switzerland display their elaborate clothing,
weapons and furniture to the public during these two days. City:
Belgioioso
September:
Mosquito Slaughter Fest,
a 'National Championship Bout' features a non-specified number
of contenders that, armed with only their bare hands, challenge
each other to produce the most corpses during a timed, five
minute, killing spree. The prize of a golden mosquito pin goes
to the winning male and female who compete in separate
categories. City: Valle Lomellina
Paniscia festival
City: Robbio
Festival of the Offel,
local traditional cake and wine drinking.
City: Parona
Gastronomic festival
based on risotto (rice) with frogs or grilled
meat, and local wine. City: Pavia
Sagra e Palio dell'Oca
- The goose has played an important part in the Jewish history
of this little town since the middle ages. Since eating pork was
forbidden to Jews, they used goose to make their salami. Geese
and goose derivatives are in abundance this Sunday as are all
the costumed townspeople dressed as they did in medieval times
with knights, noblemen, and pages wearing traditional, authentic
clothing from the late XV century. A magnificent parade recounts
the frequent visits that the Duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro,
and Beatrice In the afternoon, there is a competition called 'Gioco
dell'Oca' in which players dressed in Renaissance costumes move
about a life-sized playing board only after archers hit a
target: a bull's-eye is worth twenty points, or twenty steps on
the board, and lesser hits, five and ten points. City: Mortara
Exhibition of fruit from Valle Staffora.
City: Varzi
October:
Punta su Pavia
- initiatives offering glimpses of the artistic and historic
sides of this city that are not otherwise evident. For example:
free entrance to museums that stay open on Sunday, historic and
artistic walks with tour guides through interesting sections of
the city, concerts, speeches, exhibits and demonstrations as
well as gastronomic tours of restaurants that includes testing.
City: Pavia
Palio (horse race)
throughout the city streets. During these celebrations, the
elegantly shod feet of participants step across its patterned
cobblestones in a costumed pageant that is part of the Palio, a
horserace held in the courtyard of the castle where the Sforzas
reigned. The costumes are faithful reproductions of
15th-century. City: Vigevano
November:
Fiera del Tartufo, del Miele delle
produzione agricole dell'Oltrepo Pavese
- a festival dedicated to the truffle, honey and agricultural
products of the towns nearby Pavia. City: Casteggio
Punta su Pavia
- initiatives offering glimpses of the artistic and historic
sides of this city that are not otherwise evident. For example:
free entrance to museums that stay open on Sunday, historic and
artistic walks with tour guides through interesting sections of
the city, concerts, speeches, exhibits and demonstrations as
well as gastronomic tours of restaurants that includes testing.
City: Pavia
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself.
December:
Punta su Pavia
- initiatives offering glimpses of the artistic and historic
sides of this city that are not otherwise evident. For example:
free entrance to museums that stay open on Sunday, historic and
artistic walks with tour guides through interesting sections of
the city, concerts, speeches, exhibits and demonstrations as
well as gastronomic tours of restaurants that includes testing.
Antique show
in the Piazza della Vittoria. The 70 exhibitors offer antiques
and a variety of other merchandise. This is a lovely town that
is worth a visit anytime, especially to the medieval Certosa of
Pavia which is, perhaps, more famous than the city itself.
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