Medieval Festivals in Italy
The Medieval Feasts of Offagna
One of the best medieval festivals in Italy is held in the striking village of Offagna in Le Marche. These medieval feasts will fill with magic a midsummer night.Offagna is a tiny hill town build around a very well preserved fortress. The castle, in strategic position, dominates the plain below giving the visitor a breathtaking view and a breezy, refreshing break in a summer evening. Every year at the end of July Offagna comes alive with a week long calendar of medieval feasts that we came to appreciate for the varied and rich program. After this quiet beginning the performances and shows come one after the other in every corner of the village and castle. In the square you might find jousting knights, in the church a musical concert, the stairs will become an open air puppet theater while drummers and flag jugglers parade in the streets.
The taverns will offer the visitors local food specialty that I bet didn’t change much from medieval times. The kids will love this feeling of magic and enchantment that surrounds the place and the adults will find enough excitement to make them wanting to go back year after year. At the entrance don’t forget to buy one or two “cresciolo”: they are coins you can use to pay in the taverns or keep as a souvenir of a magic midsummer night.
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