Puglia travel & food magazine
What happens in Puglia, and when.
Vino novello from 30 October, St Martin’s Day on Wednesday 11 and the cardoncello festivals in Spinazzola, Ruvo, Gravina and Cassano: the November 2026 calendar, confirmed dates only.
The cardoncello is the mushroom of Puglia’s Murgia plateau, growing in pastures in autumn and spring. Picking it takes a permit, and every mushroom should be checked for free by the health authority. The season, the rules and the autumn festivals.
Cardoncello mushrooms, new olive oil and olives: Puglia’s October 2026 village food festivals and feasts week by week, only with confirmed dates.
From 18 to 20 September 2026 Gravina in Puglia hosts the 24th edition of Historia, the gathering of historical pageants: the Orsini on Friday, Frederick II and Dario Fo on Saturday, Charles II of Anjou and the great procession on Sunday. The programme with times and squares.
From 25 to 27 September 2026 the Red Bull Cliff Diving returns to Polignano a Mare for the thirteenth time: dives from 21 and 27 metres above Lama Monachile, in the last European round of the season. Dates, where to watch and how to get there.
The September 2026 calendar in the Salento: village sagre, patron saints’ feasts and the oldest wine festival in Italy, each one marked with whether the date is confirmed. Plus where to swim once the beaches empty out.
What a sagra is, what you eat, what it costs – and how to tell whether the date you found online is this year’s or last year’s. Plus what is on in Puglia in September 2026, with the confirmation status marked.
One of the oldest and longest carnivals in Italy: it starts on 26 December and ends with a funeral.
Cathedrals of light tens of metres high, built for four nights in July and then taken down.
Pizzica is the trance dance of the Salento, and the Notte della Taranta is the festival built around it. What it is, where it comes from, and how to go.
