Marche Voyager - Calendar of Events

Here are some of the more important events in Le Marche, including the celebrated Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro and the open-air Opera Season at Macerata.

Cultural events:

Pesaro - The 31st Rossini Opera Festival from 9 to 21 August 2010. The provisonal programme for the 2010 season includes Rossini's Sigismondo and La Cenerentola. Information tel +39 0721 3800294 fax +39 0721 3800220. For details go to our opera programme page.
Macerata - The 46th open-air opera season in the magnificent Sferisterio arena, from 29 July to 10 August 2010, includes Gounod's Faust and Verdi's La Forza del Destino. tel +39 0733 230735 fax +39 0733 261570. For details go to our opera programme page.
Jesi - 2010 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Baroque composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, born in Jesi in 1710. To mark the event a packed year-long festival has been arranged featuring major productions of his operas and other works at Jesi's Teatro Pergolesi. For the full programme go to the Fondazione Pergolesi site.
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
Urbino - Early Music Festival - July. tel +39 0722 309601
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) - 1^st 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 (a sweet "cooked" wine)
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'Angelo in Vado (near Urbino) - Mostra del tartufo bianco (white truffle)

November

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.
Urbino Festa del Duca - a jamboree in honour of Duke Federico on the third Sunday in 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.
Treia Disfida del Bracciale - a fast and furious ancient ball game played out in the first Sunday of August.

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