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In Piedmont, every town and village seems to have at least one annual festa. Here is a selective calendar of some excellent festas or annual events.

Specific dates for 2009 are being added as and when they are published.

Month	Location	Event	Timing*
January	Moldovi	International Hot Air Balloon Meeting	1st weekend
Feb	Ivrea	Carnevale	21/22 Feb 09
Feb	Santhia	Carnevale	22 Feb 09
March	Turin	Chocolate Festival	6 - 13 Mar 2009
March	Milan - San Remo	Historic car rally	13-15 March 09
March	Monastero Bormida	Polenta festival	2nd Sunday
March	Novara	Battle of Novara 1849	3rd Sunday
March	Bubbio	Polenta festival	4th weekend
April	Pralermo	Tulip display	April
April	Alessandria	Coppo d'Oro Car Rally	19/20 April 2008
April	Monastero Bormida	Five tower walk (31km)	20 April 2008
April/May	Alba	'Vinum' Wine Festival	End/Start of month
May	Vinchio	Asparagus festival	1st weekend
May	Sessame	Sagra del risotto	Ist Sunday
May	Diano d'Alba	1608 Festival (costume)	10 May 08
May	Cassinasco	Polenta Festival	2nd Sunday
May	Camogli (Liguria)	Festival of the fishes	2nd Sunday
May	Alba	Jazz Festival	10/11 May 08
May	Costigliole d'Asti	Planeta Grappa (Grappa Festival)	10/11 May 08
May	Brescia - Rome	Mille Miglia Car Rally	13-17 May 09
May	Nizza Monferrato	Barbera Wine Festival	17/18 May 08
May	Turin	Moscato Wine Festival	22-24 May 08
May	Montabone	Medieval village festa	4th Saturday
June	Nizza Monferrato	Barrel race	1st weekend
June	Turin**	World Air Games	6-13 June 09
June	Cassine	Ravioli festival	2nd weekend
June	Pecetto	Cherry Festival	2nd Sunday
June	Canelli	Historical re-enactment of the Siege	20/21 June 2009
July/Aug	S. Stefano Belbo	Cesare Pavese (Literary) Festival	7 weeks
July	Cortemilia	Beer Festival	4 July 2008
July	Roatto	Freisa Wine Festival	7 July 2008
July	Castelnuovo Bormida	Chess in costume	3rd Saturday
July	Vesime	Valli Vesimesi Car Rally	26/27 July 2008
August	Sessame	Sagra del Brachetto	2 August 2008
August	Monastero Bormida	Medieval dinner in castle courtyard	17 August 08
August	Cortemilia	Hazelnut festival	4th weekend
Sept	Monza (Lombardy)	Italian Grand Prix	11-13 Sept 09
Sept	Cassine	Medieval Festival	1st weekend
Sept	Acqui Terme	Festa of Festas	2nd weekend
Sept	Barolo	Wine Festival	12-14 Sept 08
Sept	Cocconato	Medieval Festival	28 Sept 2008
Sept	Asti	Palio	20 Sept 2009
Sept	Bra	International Cheese festival	18 - 21 Sept 09
Sept	Canelli	Wine festival	4th weekend
October	Genoa (Liguria)	International Boat Show	3-11 Oct 2009
October	Cuneo	Chestnut festival (4 days)	1st weekend
October	Alba	Donkey palio	1st Sunday
October	Calosso	Autumn gastronomic festival	3rd weekend
October	Lingotto (nr. Turin)	International Food Exhibition	Last week
November	Nizza Monferrato	St Carlo's Fair	1st weekend
November	Canelli	St Martin's Fair & Truffle Festival	2nd weekend
November	Narzole	Napoleonic festa (costume)	3rd weekend
December	Turin	Christmas market	December
December	Roccoverano	Christmas market	2nd Saturday

**The ballooning events are to be held at Mondovi and the para and hang-gliding will be at Avigliana.

All dates given are believed to be accurate, but anyone planning a specific trip to an event should confirm the date directly. We find Google very helpful for doing this, but please check carefully, especially with foreign language sites, that the web pages refer to the forthcoming, and not a previous year's event.

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