Puglia travel & food magazine
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.
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.
In Puglia the presents came on the night of 5 December, not at Christmas.
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.
The Concertone returns to Melpignano on Saturday 22 August 2026: Ermal Meta as maestro concertatore for the first time, the Mediterranean as the theme, and the guests announced so far.
In Puglia the Assumption is not one day but three. The procession that arrives by sea at Monopoli, the dawn concert at Ostuni, the village feasts, and the golden rule for the beaches.
Seven areas, one calendar. From the Negramaro in Lecce and Bari to the Concertone of the Notte della Taranta and the 20th Mediterranean Games at Taranto, week by week.
