For almost twenty years the Eurochocolate festival has been drawing gluttons, tourists and the curious to Perugia. During the festival visitors can taste chocolate in all of its imaginable forms – from bars to snacks, cakes and ice creams – in the streets of the Umbrian capital...

Every September the joust of the Quintana of Foligno offers a show not to be missed. The manifestation is more than five hundred years old and was brought back to life in 1946. Documents date it back to the first half of the 1400’s when horsemen challenged each other to the same test of skill that their heirs take part in today...

Umbria boasts one of the most important jazz festivals in Europe featuring a programme rich with concerts that, in recent years, have included performances by stellar artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Michel Petrucciani, Caetano Veloso, Keith Jarrett, Wynton Marsalis and Charles Mingus...

The Festival of Two Worlds of Spoleto, founded to create a dialogue and exchange between European and American music, theatre and art, served as the model for the ambitions of all of the manifestations that followed. However, no festival other than Spoleto has managed to have such a profound impact on the cultural identity of our times...

The Gaite Market of Bevagna is a Medieval fair that takes guests back in time to a village from the 1300’s. Each year the small Umbrian city, at the end of June, sets up the workshops, colours and flavours, economic and administrative activities that characterized Bevagna’s daily life in the fourteenth century...

The origins of the festival of Calendimaggio which takes place in Assisi, are to be found among the ancient customs of many different peoples, but especially in the Roman celebrations known as the "Fasti di Maggio" and in the medieval tradition of celebrating the arrival of Spring in early May (Kalende di Maggio) with groups of revelers serenading through the streets of the town...

Spello’s Infiorate is a manifestation which takes place every year in the small Umbrian town of Spello on the occasion of the Corpus Domini feast, on the ninth Sunday after Easter. On that night, almost a thousand people work incessantly to create carpets and pictures made of flowers along the narrow town’s streets...