Events by month
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"Lu Sand'Andonje"
The antique tradition of singing for the collection of alms associated with the cult of Sant'Antonio Abate sees a revival in the alleyways and the small squares ...
February (2)
Celebrations in honour of Santa Scolastica
Each year on the 10 th of February in the small hamlet of Villa Garrulo a peculiar traditional rite is performed. Pregnant women, single women of marriageable ...
Winter Festival
This “winter” season of great cultural events is promoted by the Province of Teramo in collaboration with the Municipalities of the Province and with Musica e ...
March (2)
Good Friday Procession
The “Good Friday Procession” is an old religious tradition in Campli and it was organized for centuries by Confraternities very widespread in all the region. ...
Good Friday Procession
It is the medieval penitential procession of Our Lady of Sorrows starting at 4.00 o’clock in the morning. The procession, a long train with the statue of the ...
April (3)
Celebrations in honour of the Madonna dello Splendore
For over four hundred years, every April, Giulianova has been celebrating the cult of the Madonna dello Splendore. It is famous for the liturgic celebrations ...
Pigro, a tribute to Ivan Graziani
This great yearly event is organized in memory of the singer Ivan Graziani, native of Teramo. Every year historical figures of the Italian music participate ...
Vern'Aprile
Vern'Aprile is a week dedicate to local dialect and includes a prize contest. This regional festival celebrates poetry, dialect folk song and different forms ...
May (10)
The “virtues” of a city to be discovered
A traditional appointment with one of the most famous dishes of the Teramo culinary art. Once a traditional peasant poor dish, today the virtù are particularly ...
Aprutium Marathon
This historical footrace is open to all and runs through the lanes and squares of the historical centre of Teramo. It takes place every year on the 1 st of May ...
500 Miles, Fashioned & Supercars Tourist Run
This car rally runs through the places linked to the memories of D'Annunzio and Margareta. Every year a fascinating procession of old cars runs through the ...
Abruzzo Riviera Half Marathon
This 21 km long half marathon is and important national appointment and is qualifying for the Corrilabruzzo. The race course runs along the seaside of three ...
Swatch-Fivb World Tour Beach Volley
This competition is part of the FIVB cycle which includes 19 stages on the 5 continents. The best international athletes participate to this Olympic discipline. ...
Procession in honour of San Michele Arcangelo
In the past, on the 8 th of May and on the 29 th of September, processions were organized as these were the periods of transhumance of the sheep herds from ...
Maggio Fest
Prestigious film, theatre, music and dance festival. During the Maggiofest many shows, conferences, presentations, projections and related events take place ...
Great 500 meeting
National car rally reserved to Cinquecentos of all brands and types, built between 1936 and 1975. The itineraries allow to explore the nature and art of the Province ...
June (11)
Premio Teramo
This literary prize “Teramo for an inedited story” is open to all writers, including foreigners, writing in Italian on a free topic. This historical prize is ...
June in choir
Folklore meetings around traditional folk song. Every Saturday in the month of June, groups coming from different Italian regions perform inside the suggestive ...
Teramo Rally
This national rally has become an important appointment for rally lovers; it is qualifying for the Italian Cup. It starts in Teramo and it takes the competitors ...
Italian Trial Cup
This trial is qualifying for the Italian trial Cup event and takes the competitors to explore the landscape wonders of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti ...
Abruzzophil
This traditional philatelic event attracts more and more visitors and exhibitors to Roseto each year. Philatelic obliterations, new postcard editions, meetings, ...
Ciclilaga Distance Cycle race
This international distance race runs through the territories of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga, where an exceptionally rich and untouched ...
Cineramnia
For a whole week Teramo becomes a wide film set where five troupes create as many short films casting exclusively residents of Teramo. Actors, directors, shooting ...
Out and About in the Province
In summer time, these daily excursions take visitors to discover the most interesting tourist sites of the Teramo Province. This represents a wonderful occasion ...
"Lu cencialone"
This agrarian custom has it that a bonfire is lit in the evening of the 28 th of June which is associated, within the hilly territory surrounding Silvi, with ...
July (21)
The Park's Specialities
The purpose of this gastronomical meeting and of the handicrafts market-exhibition is to promote the flavours and the authenticity that can be found within the ...
Pleasures of the table in Atri
Typical local products street market including free tasting. Over 100 Abruzzo producers exhibit oil, wine, cheese, cold meat products, sweets, the famous liquorice ...
Regional local wines' exhibition
A traditional appointment with DOC and DOCG Abruzzo wines which takes place within the suggestive Baroque palace of this antique Saracenic citadel. Local specialties ...
Shepherding Fair of Piano Roseto
Staged on top of the plateau of Piano Roseto, one of the most suggestive landscapes of the Abruzzo mountains, this fair represents a historical appointment for ...
Italian Mountain Cross-country Championship
This national Championship of mountain cross-country for individuals and Master Società takes place at the foot of the Gran Sasso d'Italia. Antique mule-paths ...
Interamnia World Cup
International handball championship. It is the most important and followed handball event on international level and attracts each year for a whole week ...
Roseto Opera Prima
This International cinema Festival aims at highlighting budding Italian movie directors noticed during the last cinema season and the films which have reached ...
Gran Sasso D'Italia Distance Cycling Race
This important cycle races runs through the Gran Sasso. Cycling lovers meet in the characteristic mountain centre of Val Vomano, starting point of one of the ...
Teramo open to the world
During the same week as the Interamnia World Cup, Teramo pays homage to the world through an extraordinary cultural happening dedicated to the various nations ...
Castelbasso Cultural Project
Each year Castelbasso becomes a rich cultural international receptacle and this project has become one of the most awaited events of the Abruzzo summer. The ...
Castelli Ceramic Arts Market-exhibition
The characteristic mountain village of Castelli is famous in the whole world for its ceramic art and hosts each year this historical market-exhibition along its ...
Summer Festival
The Summer Festival of great events is promoted by the Province of Teramo. Every year musical and theatre events of national relevance are programmed through ...
Biennial of Contemporary Sacred Arts
International exhibition of art works pertaining to sacredness and spirituality. The creations, installations that were created for this occasion can be seen ...
Oh, Jazz be Good! International Jazz Festival
The most famous figures of international Jazz meet in Mosciano and and further towns within the Province to take part in unforgettable concerts and sessions. ...
Green Hills in Blues
International Blues Festival. Surrounded by thousand-year-old historical monuments, musicians from all over the world come to share their musical talent on the ...
Campli in the blues
Great blues festival staged within one of the most beautiful art towns of Abruzzo. Some of the most famous international blues artists perform on the stage ...
A night of fears
Theatre laboratory and street theater shows are staged from sunset to dawn in an abandoned hamlet within the Monti della Laga, among thick woods and rupestral ...
International “Stefano Bizzarri” accordion Prize
More than ever considered one of the main appointments for “fisa” (accordion) lovers. First organized in 1992, without much experience nor means, it is however ...
'G.Spitilli' Prize
Popular music, song, poetry and dance festival. Each summer this prize offers the numerous folklore lovers a blend of popular cultures made of ancient musical ...
Art and crafts in Castelbelfiore
Exhibition of arts and crafts, customs and popular traditions of Abruzzo. Antique occupations and old handicrafts shops are take life again within the suggestive ...
Exhibition of antique and modern embroideries and laces
This festival is dedicated to one of the most typical forms of artistic handicrafts of Abruzzo and to a exclusively women's tradition: the art of embroidery. ...
August (22)
Chalice of the stars
A traditional appointment dedicated to tutored tasting of the DOC wines of Controguerra and of the typical traditional Abruzzo dishes. Entertainment and shows ...
Porcino mushroom and local products festival
A great occasion for tasting the typical products of the mountain side of Teramo surrounded by an enchanting landscape. This small Mountain town of the Monti ...
Casolano pesto spaghetti and eel and cod festival
Every year the small villahe of Casoli hosts a peculiar gastronomical festival where it is possible to taste the dishes of the most remote cooking traditions ...
Abruzzo ham and 'ddu bbotte' Festival
Wine and specialties of the typical local gastronomy, the delicious ham from Basciano and folklore above all. Shows, musical entertainments, concerts, ...
Wine, sausage, macaroni and pecorino cheese festival
A “classic” and a must among the festivals dedicated to wine and gastronomy of the territory of Teramo. The municipality of Torano Nuovo has been organizing ...
Italic Porchetta Festival
This historical festival is dedicated to the celebration of the famous “porchetta camplese” (the prochetta of Campli). This event, which has been organized for ...
A showcase on the Park
Exploring the beauties of the Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga: conferences, live workshops, the institution village, theme dinners and areas ...
Athletics under the stars
Night athletics events i the “town of Nereto” This event is cured by the Municipality of Nereto with the collaboration of the Società Ecologica “G” of Giulianova ...
Celebrations in honour of the Madonna degli Angeli/del Casale
Through the years the Vergine del Casale had become the Patron of the town and is deeply rooted into the territory and its rural economy. She is celebrated ...
Festivities in honour of Maria Santissima Assunta and procession to the sea
This suggestive and antique procession to the sea takes place on the day of the Feast of Santa Maria Assunta. Beach games tournaments (in the past the challenge ...
Festivities in honour of San Rocco
Like many other midsummer festivities, this thanksgiving festivity has a strong rural connotation. It celebrates the thaumaturgical qualities of the Pilgrim ...
Festivities and fair in honour of our Lady of the Assumption
The feast and the fair take place on the 15 th of August around the splendid church of Santa Maria di Ronzano, in the open country. Like many other midsummer ...
Between Sun and Moon
Art and street theatre festival. The entire village of Montone, which lies on the top of hills along the Adriatic Coast, is literally 'invaded' for a whole week ...
Tendopoli - A Festival dedicated to youth
Thousands of young people coming from all over Italy meet for five days around a wide campsite set up next to the Sanctuary of S.Gabriele dell'Adolorata, Patron ...
Val Fino al Canto
At the foot of the Gran Sasso, the small village of Arsita organizes each year an important event dedicated to music-ethnology and aiming at rediscovering and ...
Festival Buskers
During this great festival, the welcoming sea resort hosts a series of street shows. In the evening musicians, actors, mimes, jugglers, clowns and acrobats ...
European Festival of the Dukes of Acquaviva
Musical specialization Master meeting and concert festival Every summer, around 150 young musicians coming from all over Italy meet in this splendid city of ...
Following the steps of Lucrezia Borgia in Castiglione della Valle
Delicacies, phantasmagorias and period costume shows... “Castrum Leonis Valli A.D. 1499: A young prince and princess followed by a long retinue reach the ...
The Mendoza in the Valle Siciliana
Enchanting pictures of a remote history come to life again through the commemoration of the Marchesato della Valle Siciliana recalling the presence of the Spanish ...
International Folklore Meeting
This prestigious festival hosts folk groups from all over the world. Performance of the “laccio d'amore” (lace dance), a peculiar archaic dance typical of ...
Assumption fair
The traditional “aprutini” float parade, runs from the 13 th -century Palazzo dei Duchi d’Acquaviva to the roman-gothic style Cathedral dell'Assunta,through ...
September (5)
Lido delle Rose Trophy
Europe's and maybe the world's oldest Basketball trophy was first organized in 1945 following the conclusion of the Second World War and has hosted through ...
Inter-regional mountain cycling race Teramo-Prati di Tivo
A 65 km long cycling race course through the Teramo moutains. This race leads from the capital of Aprutium to the highest peaks of the Apennines through untouched ...
Festivities in honour of the Madonna del Ponte
The people of Montorio are quite devoted to this Madonna, who is considered to be the protector of the town and is celebrated every year on her “dies natalis”, ...
Pilgrimage to the hermitage of Santa Colomba
The small church dedicated to Santa Colomba stands near Pretara; it has a small hail form belltower where a statue of the saint eremite is kept. According ...
The “Insegna” dance
Every year on the 23 rd of September at midday, after the religious rites dedicated to the Virgin Maria Santissima della Misericordia, patron of the town, a ...
October (3)
'Gianni Di Venanzo' International cinematography Prize
Within the field of cinema, this prize represents an original initiative entirely dedicated to cinematography and dedicated to the memory of one of the Masters ...
Montonico Grapes and Wine Revival
The village rises on the mountainside of the Gran Sasso d'Italia and hosts every year this characteristic traditional folklore event which involves float parades, ...
Chestnut Festival
This traditional autumn appointment is dedicated to the typical local products of the Teramo mountains: tasting of chestnuts and of typical local dishes. Excursions ...
November (3)
Concert season
From November to the end of the winter season Teramo traditionally organizes a rich and variegated season of lyrical concerts, symphonies and and chamber music ...
National Radio amateur Market-fair
For over forty years this event has offered many radio lovers the possibility to inform themselves on the most modern technologies of this field. This ...
December (6)
Ethnographic Crib “the Laga People”
This crib is biggest in Abruzzo and counts among the most important of Italy. This great construction is set up over 600 sq. And allows the visitor to plunge ...
Festivities in honour of S.Berardo
This traditional religious feast is celebrated in honour of the town's Patron. On the 19 th of December the entire historical centre hosts the S.Berardo Fair ...
Christmas Bonfire
This antique religious rite roots in prehistoric times and involves today the entire population of the village. Over 100 quintals of wood are burnt without ...
Life Crib of Cerqueto
It is the most antique life crib within the Province of Teramo and is characterized by the magical and absorbed atmosphere of this little village cradled on the ...
The night of the Faugni
This event, during which a millinery rite is celebrated, represents the most magical and enchanting appointment for the ducal city. “The Faugni” are high burning ...
Live Crib of Giulianova
The Christmas tradition of the “Live Crib” comes to life every year within the historical centre of the coast town of Giulianova on the 26 th of December. ...