Piemonte · Northern Italy
The Monferrato hills, in plain English.
Every village, sagra and wine festival in these UNESCO hills — written by people who are here, kept current, and still useful long after the festival has packed up.
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UNESCO vineyards an hour south of Turin — and far quieter than Tuscany.
The birthplace of Italian sparkling wine, poured straight from cellars carved into the tufa beneath the hills.
A food-and-wine sagra in some village nearly every weekend, spring to autumn.
Unhurried, and genuinely glad you came — a place that still takes three hours over lunch.
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Events across Monferrato
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Nov
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La Bagna Caoda della Pro Loco di Gorzano
Gorzano (San Damiano d'Asti), Pro Loco, Frazione Gorzano 159
The Pro Loco of Gorzano, a hamlet of San Damiano d'Asti, serves an all-you-can-eat bagna caoda over three sittings in early November, with or without garlic, and takeaway too.
Food festival
14
Nov
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La Bagna Cauda De.Co. di Vignale
Vignale Monferrato
Vignale calls itself the capital of bagna cauda, and for a November weekend the Pro Loco proves it — communal tables of the De.Co.-certified dish, the garlic-and-anchovy pot bubbling at the oratorio on Via Roma.
SagraLocal
14
Nov
2026
BioAgroArte
Asti
A monthly Saturday market of organic food, crafts and eco-friendly products in Piazza Statuto, in the centre of Asti, held on the second Saturday of the month from March to December.
MarketLocal↻
14
Nov
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Camillo Francia. Opere 2000–2026, Castello del Monferrato
Casale Monferrato
A free winter retrospective of the Casale-born abstract painter Camillo Francia, twenty-six years of work in the second-floor rooms of the Castello del Monferrato, open at weekends into January.
Exhibition
14
Nov
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Il Magico Paese di Natale — Mercatini di Natale di Asti
Asti
Asti's Christmas market: from mid-November to just before Christmas, Piazza Alfieri fills with around 130 wooden chalets selling crafts, local food and drink, as the largest site of the Magico Paese di Natale, which also runs Christmas events at Govone castle and a living nativity in San Damiano d'Asti.
Christmas market
14
Nov
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La Grande Bagna di Cortandone
Cortandone, Piazza Sant'Antonio Abate
Cortandone's Pro Loco serves its bagna cauda on every weekend of November: dinner on Saturday, lunch on Sunday, booked ahead. 2026 is the 60th edition.
Food festival
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