If you were at Borgo di Vagli in your Tuscan residence in the coming months, below are a few attractions to consider visiting.
Olivagando
Magione
Nov 18th-19th
Olivagando is a major event in the calendar of initiatives in this period of the year for enhancing and promoting the products of the season. You will find the aromas and flavors of autumn, including roasted chestnuts and new wine, “bruschetta” and fresh oil. Together with food and wine, the festival will host a series of initiatives relating to various themes: food security, health, social issues, culture etc. Opening times: 6-9pm
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Truffle Fair
Valtopina
Nov 18th-19th/ 25th-26th
The National Truffle and Typical Products Market Fair is held every year on the last two weekends in November, and it has a wide variety of stands displaying truffles from the Valtopina, Umbria and Italy, with an interesting section dedicated to products from other countries. Since 1981 this major event has offered a series of activities, including guided tours by truffle experts, tastings with delicious combinations of the famous trifola (white) truffle with olive oil and wine, and culinary offerings with “all truffle” menus.
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Christmas Market
Castel Rigone
Every weekend from Saturday, November 25th
Castel Rigone is a small village on the top of the hills overlooking Trasimeno Lake. During Christmas period, from the end of November, the oldest part of the village becomes a typical market, organized in the cellars overlooking the small piazzas and the characteristic alleys.
When you enter the village you feel immediately comfortable in a welcome atmosphere, with Christmas music and coloured lights.
The exhibitors, most of them live in the village, show several gifts and craftsman products, all handmade: Christmas decorations, nativities, costume jewellery, wooden objects, hats and wool scarfs, laces from Isola Maggiore, typical food and biological products like jams, sauces, honey, legumes, small houses done with biscuit pasta and tasty "walking" biscuits.
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Natale é
Bastia Umbra
Dec 2nd-3rd / 8th-10th
“Christmas is” is the new Gift Fair, which promotes local commerce, handicrafts and gastronomy in Umbria. The fair is a unique event featuring the beauty and creativity of arts and crafts as well as a great opportunity for those who want to make original and sought-after gifts.
Opening Times: 10am – 10am
Location: Piazza Moncada, 1 - Bastia Umbra
1927 – The Return to Italy
Firenze
until April 30th
Salvatore Ferragamo returned to Italy in 1927 after twelve years in the United States. In 2017, to mark the ninetieth anniversary of his homecoming, the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo presents an exhibition offering an overview of the 1920s, a decade now recognized as an authentic forge of open-minded ideas and experimentation free of ideological constraints and prejudices.
Ferragamo chose to settle in Florence in virtue of its acknowledged centrality in the geography of Italian taste and style at a time in which the word “return” was especially meaningful: the return to order in the arts, the return to professional skill and to the great national tradition. Developed in chapters like a coming-of-age story, the exhibition focuses precisely on this trend in the culture of the period. Curated by Carlo Sisi, it takes Ferragamo’s voyage on an ocean liner back to Italy as its guiding thread: a metaphor of his mental journey through the Italian visual culture of the 1920s, the source of the themes and works that were to influence his poetic vision directly or indirectly. At the same time, it also encompasses all the cultural and social facets that distinguished Italy’s rebirth after the Great War, on the eve of the authoritarian regime imposed by Fascism.
Opening Times 10-19.30
Location: Museo Salvatore Ferregamo,
Palazzo Spini Feroni
Piazza di Santa Trinita, 5/R
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