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Events and Festivals
in Pistoia
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Festival and events
in Pistoia and province:
January and
all year around:
February:
April:
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Tournament of Saracino.
Date: 3rd weekend of April City: Pescia
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Sagra della Pastorizia
(Sheepman Feast), Cutigliano (towards San Marcello-Abettone)
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Festa della Farina dolce
(Sweet flour Festival) City: Piteglio Cantamaggio near Prataccio
May and June:
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Feast of forty hours' devotion
with sport competitions and festival of the tombola game.
City: Montale
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Massesi weeks
and festival featuring olive-oil with savoury bruschetta
and Toscanello wine. City: Massa and Cozzile
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Pinocchio's Birthday.
City: Pescia
July:
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Pistoia Blues Festival
- Certainly one of the best musical events in Italy. Artist
revue to include many superstars that are far from blues!
It's twinned with the Chicago Blues Festival and attracts
some of the world's greatest stars (past performers have
included B.B. King, David Bowie, Steve Winwood, Zucchero,
David Crosby, Santana and Bob Dylan to name a few). There
are special trains from Florence that will transport music
lovers into one of the loveliest of ancient Tuscan cities
that exists. Date: the second weekend of July. City: Pistoia
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Giostra dell'Orso
(Joust of the Bear), cultural, sport and folk demonstrations.
On the last Sunday of the month, they celebrate the Tournament
of the Bear. Pistoia annual "Bear fight" culminates on 25th
July in its main square after a month of concerts and pageantry.
The Joust of the Bear dates back to the 14th Century: 12
knights are pitted against a bear (two wooden dummies) dressed
in a checked cloak, there is normally traditional food served.
It celebrates Pistoia patron Saint, San Jacopo. It's a contest
among rival neighbourhoods: Golden Bear, Dragon, White Stag
and Griffon. In pairs, the riders race twice around the
square of the Piazza del Duomo and then try to strike the
target, a bear (the symbol of the city), with their lances.
The event takes place in the late afternoon, and is preceded
by a parade in costume along the medieval town walls. City:
Pistoia
August:
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Corso of flowers
(a parade of floats decorated with flowers). Date: 1st weekend
City: Chiesina Uzzanese
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Traditional Feast of the Towers.
Date: 1st Sunday City: Piteglio (towards San Marcello-Abettone)
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Feast of Saint Rocco
with the traditional game of the fighting cocks (banned
in the United States and many other countries, but still
legal here.). City: Marliana
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Festa di San Lodovico.
Celebrations for Saint Ludovico and parade in costume City:
Serravalle Pistoiese
September:
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Palio dei Rioni,
a huge archery contest between the neighbourhoods of the
city into a medieval contest of skill. The residents dress
up in epoch costume and over 400 people participate in the
ancient competitions. Date: the first Sunday of September.
City: Pescia
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Celebrations for the Patron Saint
which end with a hot-air balloon race. City: S. Marcello
Pistoiese
December:
Fogarone
(24 December). City: Treppio
Presepe Vivente
(24 December). City: Tobbiana (Montale)
Sagra in
Pistoia municipality:
Palio degli
Arcieri
3 September 2006
/ Pescia (PT)
Festa della
Farina dolce
April/ Piteglio
(PT)
Mercatino in
Galleria
April/ Pistoia
(PT)
Scuola Itinerante
di Chocolate
April/ Agliana
(PT)
Sagra del Tortelli
August/ Cutigliano
(PT)
Piazzette in
Festa
August/ Marliana
(PT)
Sagra della
Patata fritta
September/ Marliana
(PT)
Sagra del Ballotto
October/ Marliana
(PT)
Cioccolosit?
February/ Monsummano
Terme (PT)
Tra Poesia e
Sapori
February-April/
Pistoia / Pistoia (PT)
Sagra del Neccio
March/ San Quirico
di Pescia (PT)
Sagra della
Frittella di Riso
March / Lupicciano
(PT)
Piazza in Fiore
April/ P.zza Giusti
/ Monsummano Terme (PT)
Festa dell'Ambiente
May/ Monsummano
Terme (PT)
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