19/10/2025 @ 12:30 – 17:30 – The 17th edition of the chestnut festival takes place on Sunday 12 and 19 October, in Piazza della Repubblica in San Giovanni alla Vena, near the medieval village of Vicopisano. Lunch starts at 12.30pm and from 3pm the food stands open, offering fritters, necci, castagnaccio and roasted chestnuts. Reservations are recommended for lunch. San Giovanni […]
13/10/2026 @ 9:00 – 18:00 – The Coppa del Mobilio, which boasts 73 editions, is an international competitive cycling race for elite and under-23s that takes place in two fractions: one in-line race (124 km, start at 9.00 a.m.), the other time trial (33 km, start at 3.00 p.m.). The in-line race includes 4 initial laps of 8 km around Ponsacco, […]
24/05/2026 @ 10:00 – 19:00 – On Saturday 21 May, exhibitors and artisans will be present at the Urban Park along the lake to promote local products. The festival will start in the morning, with volunteers from the associations engaged in cleaning some green areas near the lake il Cavo At 11.00 a.m. Villa Elisa will open its doors to the […]
26/05/2026 @ 9:00 – 23:00 – Cascina annual fair, dedicated to Saints Innocent and Florentine, is generally held in the historic centre of Cascina for the whole day, with the traditional stalls of various kinds located in Corso Matteotti, Via Genovesi, Piazza Gramsci and Viale Comaschi and concluding with the great evening tombola The fair is traditionally held on the first […]
13/05/2023 @ 15:30 – 23:30 – Saturday 13 May the ‘Race of the Carts’ returns in Peccioli. It is a race along a 600-metre route with an average gradient of 6.5 %, starting in Via Roma and ending in Via Garibaldi. Programme 15.30 meeting of participants and registration 17.00 reconnaissance descent 18.15 first race descent 19.30 dinner break 21.15 third race […]
06/09/2026 @ 19:00 – 23:30 – The Festival and the Palio del Carretto are back at the festival grounds in Latignano, a village on the outskirts of Cascina, for two weekends featuring dishes made with duck and tripe, and much more besides. From 28 August to 6th September, food stalls will be open for the festival, accompanied by live music from […]
06/09/2026 @ 10:30 – 18:00 – Every September, the European Day of Jewish Culture takes place in over one hundred locations in Italy: a particularly successful and successful event in our country, with tens of thousands of visitors who every year accept the invitation to visit synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods, to attend concerts, go to themed exhibitions or meet live writers, […]
11/07/2026 @ 19:00 – 21:00 – Metarock, Italy’s longest-running rock music festival, now in its 36th edition, takes place in the new premises of the Giardino della Nunziatina and is titled ‘Shots of Grace’ as it is dedicated to female voices. The festival has a weekly cadence: from 17 June every Friday until 15 July. This is not a random choice: […]
04/10/2026 @ 10:00 – 18:00 – Treasure Hunt in the Italian Orange-flag villages returns on Sunday 4 October. A unique opportunity to discover lesser-known places and stories, whilst having fun with friends and enjoying the special welcome offered by the Italian Touring Club’s ‘Orange Flag – Bandiera Arancione’ villages. It is not a competition in the strict sense: every team that […]
01/07/2023 @ 17:00 – 23:00 – Now in its 4th edition, ‘il Borgo dell’Arte’ will be held on Saturday 1 July in Lorenzana. The small mediaeval town will be completely closed to traffic and all the cellars, bottoms, alleys and gardens will be invaded by artists of all kinds. There will be themed areas dedicated to painting, sculpture, ceramics and comics. […]
20/09/2026 – 20/12/2026 @ 9:00 – 18:00 – On the second Sunday of the month (except August), the Vicopisano Antiques and Hobbyists Market returns to Piazza Cavalca, one of the most popular markets in Tuscany, full of stalls, exhibitors and objects of all kinds, from furniture to paintings, jewelry to vinyls, knick-knacks to clothes, radios and more. During the market, guided tours will […]
08/08/2026 @ 20:00 – 23:30 – The “Watermelon Festival” comes back to Lari on 8th August. Dinner in the street from 8 p.m. with a view of the Castello dei Vicari and background music. It is preceded by Holy Mass at the Oratory of the Madonna della Neve The Tuscan variant “cocomero” to indicate the Italian watermelon, is due to a […]