Italy Things to Do

Italy is well-known both for its fine food and its ability to celebrate just about anything with a festival. Combine the two and you’ve got a long list of diverse, excellent, and often quirky food festivals in Italy. Most of the time, these festivals coincide with the harvest season for whatever food is being honored, but sometimes the food isn’t a specific ingredient but rather a particular dish. Such is the case with the risotto festival in the Piedmont town of Sessame, held every May.

The Italians love food and they love wine. They also love to celebrate. So the seasonal harvest of any food is a great reason to hold a festival. From the smallest village to the biggest city, you’ll find people getting excited about tomatoes, fish, pumpkins, chocolate, and grapes. It’s one of the reasons we love Italy so much.

Who doesn’t love chocolate and who doesn’t love Italy? Put the two together and you’ve pretty well got heaven in a foil wrapper. Or a jar in the case of Nutella.