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Medieval Festival - Malmantile, Lastra a Signa (Florence)

Enchanting ladies, brave knights, musicians, acrobats, brave archers ... on 25 and 26 May and 1 and 2 June are all in Malmantile, in the picturesque setting of the ancient walls of the Castle, for the XXVI edition of the Medieval Festival.

FESTA-MEDIEVALE-MALMANTILE-TOSCANA-0028It will be possible to immerse yourself in the life of the time admiring the craftsmen at work, witnessing real duels with swords, having fun at the "throw it in the barrel", listening to the fantastic stories told by errant storytellers.

PARTY PROGRAM

The public will be able to attend the Palio delle Contrade, which will see the Malmantile districts compete or, walking through the village, come across the historical procession, be fascinated by falconers, and meet the funny eyes of some jester, all cheered by itinerant musicians.

In addition, every afternoon there is a space dedicated to children with activities and entertainment of all kinds.

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At the Hosteria or the "refreshments" along the route, you will be greeted by enchanting ladies, to enjoy a typical dish or a quick snack.

A festival, now in its twenty-sixth edition, which every year attracts thousands of visitors from far beyond the borders of Tuscany; a town - that of Malmantile - which every year sets in motion by engaging itself in the preparation of the various activities.

All the participants, the creators, the organizers are volunteers of the local Misericordia and the proceeds of the Festival are entirely destined to the strengthening and improvement of the services that the Association offers.

Hours: 25 May from 7.00 pm

26 May and 1/2 June from 16.00

Free entry.

For the occasion, a SHUTTLE BUS service will be set up from the parking lots to the Medieval Festival. The bus will allow you to comfortably reach the Castello di Malmantile leaving your car in the parking lots!
http://www.festamedioevalemalmantile.it/

The castle of toys- Monteriggioni (Siena)

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Sunday, June 2 the sixth edition of Monteriggioni is back Il Castello dei Balocchi, the playful event in which families can enjoy themselves in the open air while enjoying the wonder of the Castle and living an experience dedicated to play and fun. The theme of the 2019 edition: the magical Mary Poppins!

Il Castello dei Balocchi - Monteriggioni (Siena) _2The castle of Monteriggioni will thus become a fantasy world that contradicts the physical laws of the real one, full of incredible and extravagant characters who will lead you by the hand through stories and magic. In this story, families will find themselves walking with chimney sweeps, riding on stick horses that come to life but also inside the serious and authoritative bank of Mr. Banks. And you already know what you will do with the 2 pennies you have available?

The thread of the narration will unfold under the eyes of the visitors passing from one episode to another, between encounters of strange characters, obstacles to overcome and stories to listen to.

This year to welcome you in the castle here is the governess nanny ... she is holding a special meter that comes directly from the Mary Poppins bag ... the meter indicates what little girl you are and tells us about you ... who knows if you need nanny Mary !?

Once inside the castle, families will be able to decide how to start their journey, then visiting all the play areas. To help them on their journey they will have the map of places with them ... but no fear, in the world of Mary there is always a chimney sweep ready to show you the way!

The traveling street band will play in the streets, cheering with their music, in the main square and through the streets of the village there will be a market exhibition for the display and sale of handicrafts.

Piazza I Maggio will be waiting for you with food stands. Castello dei Balocchi - Monteriggioni (Siena) _3
Appointments not to be missed

3.00 pm
At the entrance to the castle
Opening happening in the company of the characters of the world of Mary Poppins

16.00 - 18.00 hours
In the area "shows on the roofs"
Chimney sweep soap bubble show

From 16.30
Traveling music through the streets of the castle with the street band

7.30 pm
In Piazza Roma
Grand finale
Play areas

JUST A FEW SUGAR ...

and the pill goes down! This is how Mary Poppins sings to remind us that with sweetness we can face all the little difficulties. Sugar colors the world and makes it more melodious.
Here's what you need in this creative area: colors, ideas and a bit of imagination for the sweetest laboratory there is ... sugar becomes color for designs and pictures to decorate that you can stick in your bedroom.

SHOWS ON THE ROOFS

Il Castello dei Balocchi - Monteriggioni (Siena) _5In this area you can watch shows and stories that will thrill adults and children.
The chimney sweep is the protagonist of this area where wonder is king!
Who better than he who lives on the roofs knows the romance of sunrises and sunsets, the lightness of the air and the enchantment of the smoke of the chimney-pots that goes up, that if you follow him with his eyes seems to make you fly?
The chimney sweep will guide you on a journey to discover the world of soap bubbles. Between magic and poetry passing from micro bubbles to giant ones, from bubbles with hands or strange instruments, climbing volcano bubbles and taming fire bubbles, you will find yourself under a rain of bubbles and who knows maybe even inside one of them, to then fly go free in the sky together with your dreams.

AT SCHOOL OF GALATEO BY WAITER PENGUINS

Penguins are true masters at table service. They know good manners, gallantry and education. This is why they are good friends of Mary Poppins.
Will you know how to be a child who is just as careful and shrewd in bringing the tray with the glasses to the tea table with a thousand obstacles? Experiment with the theme path with obstacle tests to overcome to get into the polite penguin club too.

IN THE SADDLE OF THE GIOSTRA

The horses came to life and left the carousel for a nice walk in the park. In this area build your racing animal, follow the path riding your horse and arrive at the photo finish!
You can then take your little horse to stick directly in the stable of your home provided that you continue to take care of it and make it run with you at every opportunity.

GAMES ONCE

Il Castello dei Balocchi - Monteriggioni (Siena) _6The ancient wooden games come to life in Piazza I ° Maggio, where adults and children can try their hand at challenges, puzzles and games of skill. All the games that set up the area are period games handcrafted in wood.
So here are billiards, pinball machines, dominoes and sound games, constructions, catapults and balancing games, spinning tops, throwing games and everything our grandparents built themselves ... a real open-air playroom.

AT THE BANK

Even just two grams
http://www.castellobalocchimonteriggioni.it/
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Cherry Festival- Prato

From Friday 7th to Sunday 9th June 26th edition for the Bacchereto Cherry Festival organized by Polisportiva Bacchereto.

The food stands are open on Fridays from 7.30pm, on Saturdays from 4.00pm and on Sundays from 3.00pm and offer not only cherries but also first courses such as penne with meat sauce, pomarola, anger, macaroni with duck; among the latter we have rosticciana, chicken, veal steak, rabbit, sausage, baked bier.

The desserts are then strictly based on cherries: tart with cherries, fried cherries, cheese cake with cherries, cherries ...
PROGRAM:

Friday 7 June

    7.30 pm opening of food stands
    9.30 pm presentation of the 64th Montalbano Cycling Tour

Saturday 8 June

    16 hours opening food stands
    21.30 dancing evening 60/80 with Gli Anonyms Live

Sunday 9 June

    3.00 pm food stands and covaccine in the anico wood-burning oven
    from 3 pm Io Creo, local craft market
    9.30 pm music with Quelli del Gufo

Furthermore, within the walls of the Medieval Castle, Exhibition of Ancient Majolica (Saturday and Sunday from 4 to 7 pm; Sunday 9th free guided tour)
http://www.bacchereto.it/index.php/it/component/content/article/8-sagre/15-ciliegia.html
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Summer Tuesday in Tavarnelle

Every Tuesday from 11 June to 10 September 2019

The Pro Loco Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, in collaboration with the Natural Shopping Center, offers a rich calendar of events that will take place in Piazza Matteotti, Piazza Cresti and the streets of the center every Tuesday from 11 June to 10 September starting at 7 pm : 00.

Market, entertainment for children, shows, music, open shops and many other initiatives
http://www.barberinotavarnelle.it/eventi-notizie/destate-di-martedi-a-tavarnelle-0

138° Edizione: Giostra del Saracino (Arezzo)

138° Edizione: Giostra del Saracino (Arezzo)
It is an ancient knightly game which has its origines in the medioeval period. 
The game take place in the Arezzo's Piazza Grande and are characterized by equestrian manoeuvres, rolling drums and waving flags. The most important part of the event is the challenge that knights arrange with their lances, just like they used to do during the medioevla period. The knight's group that will gather the highest number of points will gain the desired golden lance. 
The price of the event goes from 5 euros to 100 euros. 
http://giostradelsaracinoarezzo.it/
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Music on the Apuane

Music on the Apuane
For those who love nature do not miss Music on the Apuan Alps, the festival that brings concerts in the villages and mountains of the Apuan Alps, from the village of Pruno, in the municipality of Stazzema, to Monte Folgorito. From June 22nd to September 8th, many free entry appointments with a slow tourism, with classical music, jazz, rock and songwriting.
Among the guests of the 2019 edition there are the Kinnara, the guitarist Alberto Mons and Bobo Rondelli.
https://www.visittuscany.com/it/idee/unestate-di-concerti-in-toscana-10-festival-da-non-perdere/
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Lucca Summer Festival

Let's start with the historic appointment with Lucca Summer Festival, the kermsse held in the heart of the city, in Piazza Napoleone. From 28 June to 29 July 2019 a program full of concerts will be held with internationally renowned artists and bands including Elton John, Francesco De Gregori, Take That, Toto, Calcutta, Sting, Tears for Fears, Mark Knopfler and many others.
https://www.visittuscany.com/it/idee/unestate-di-concerti-in-toscana-10-festival-da-non-perdere/
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Porrettana Express

Eight historic trains from June to October on the tracks that made the history of Italy

Unique views over the Apennines, pristine forests inhabited by deer and roe deer, small villages where you can rediscover traditional cuisine and little-known artistic itineraries, a journey into nature and in Italian history: Porrettana Express is born, a project to enhance the territory that unites Tuscany and Emilia Romagna through one of the oldest and most symbolic railway lines in the country, the Porrettana. The initiative, which plans to create a real widespread Railway Ecomuseum, kicks off on Sunday 30 June with the inaugural train of the cycle of eight dedicated journeys, each characterized by carriage activities and significant stages along the route.

Starting from the Historic Rotabili Deposit of Pistoia, some early twentieth-century cars will accompany families and the curious along the route of the one that aims to be known in the world as the Transappenninica of Italy, among small villages immersed in greenery, tunnels and viaducts of ancient memory . The history of the Porrettana line, in fact, has its roots in the crucial years of our country, between the wars that led to independence and the unification of Italy. The first embryo of "rail road destined for public transit" dates back to 1845, when the brothers Bartolomeo, Pietro and Tommaso Cini of San Marcello obtained from the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II the authorization to carry out the necessary studies. This led to the signing of the agreement for the construction of the "Central Italy Railway", destined to join the Austrian railway system with the Tuscan network, bringing together five pre-unification states: the Austrian Empire, the Papal States, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Duchy of Modena, Duchy of Parma. Made by the Kingdom of Savoy and then by the newborn Kingdom of Italy, the Porrettana was inaugurated in 1864 and became the backbone of communications between north and central-south. It played a central role during the Great War and until the thirties, when it was outclassed by the Direttissima Prato-Bologna.

The project leader, the result of a team effort that involved numerous subjects from small territorial realities to public institutions and bodies, is Transapp, an association that brings together numerous Tuscan and Emilian organizations. Porrettana Express is promoted and supported by the Municipalities of Pistoia and San Marcello Piteglio, by the Tuscany Region, by Toscana Promozione Turistica and by the CARIPT Foundation, with the decisive contribution of the FS Foundation. To coordinate communication and promotion Giorgio Tesi Editrice, which over the years has been able to establish itself for the interventions in support of the Pistoia area and its tourist, historical and artistic value conducted both locally, nationally and internationally.

The Pantagruel Cooperative will coordinate guided tours, educational workshops and activities up and down the tracks, while the writing, interpretation and recording of the story about the history of the railway that will be listened to by passengers while traveling is organized by the Cultural Center Il Funaro. This first cycle of trips represents the beginning of an ambitious journey destined to grow over the years, also thanks to the collaboration with the Educational Services of the Municipality of Pistoia, with the involvement of schools and local realities.

The Transappenninica is presented as a panoramic gateway to the Pistoia mountain system, dotted with a dense network of paths for lovers of outdoor sports, in particular trekking and mountain biking, new perspectives and an artistic and museum heritage still in large part to be exploited, which make it a destination of excellence for families and travelers looking for a full immersion experience to the rhythm of nature. A series of trips that - in collaboration with Coldiretti - also wants to rediscover and enhance a food and wine tradition made up of typical products and ancient recipes.

Here is the travel calendar with departure from the Pistoia Historic Rotatable Depot (arrival and departure destinations in brackets)
30 June Inaugural train with authorities, journalists and passengers (Piteccio - Pracchia - Ecomuseum of the Pistoia Mountains)
13 July KIDS train by the Pantagruel Cooperative (Orsigna)
August 18 Train "Pracchia & musica" by Transapp
September 15th “SMI Museum and Gothic Line” Train
22 September Green Train by Legambiente
October 6 Train "The theater by train" by Il Funaro (arrives in Porretta Terme)
October 13 Train Kids organized by the Pantagruel Cooperative
October 27 Train in yellow by the Amici del Giallo of Pistoia (arrives in Porretta Terme)
http://www.porrettanaexpress.it/
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One day in Carmignano

Among the places in Tuscany that I care about most, there is the small town of Carmignano, nestled among the beautiful hills of Montalbano and inhabited since the Paleolithic. This is a landscape with well-maintained cypress trees, vineyards and olive groves, capable of inspiring artists and offering a breath of fresh air for those seeking to escape city life.

As much as I completely embrace the daily chaos of Florence, the famous city of the Renaissance, it is in the deepest places of the Tuscan countryside like Carmignano that I savor the secrets of Tuscany.

The territory is rich from the artistic and cultural point of view. Here there are villas and residences of the Medici era and, still here, many characteristic events are organized. A famous annual tradition is the Feast of San Michele with the Palio dei ciuchi, an event that takes place at the end of each September, which winds between the four districts of the city (white, blue, yellow, green), one against the another with an unusual race involving donkeys. Every third Sunday in October the sale of their prized dried figs officially opens in a special festival with local producers.
http://www.visittuscany.com/it/proposte-di-viaggio/un-giorno-a-carmignano/
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Pistoia Blues

From 5 to 10 July 2019 the historic Pistoia Blues returns for five days, bringing great interpreters and legends of rock and international blues to the historic center of the city since 1980.
This year they will bring their blues to the stage, Black Stone Cherry, followed by Thirty Seconds To Mars and the day after by Eric Gales along with Robben Ford. July 8th will be the turn of Noel Gallagher & The High Flying Birds, while Ben Harper with Innocent Criminals will close the festival on July 10th.
https://www.visittuscany.com/it/idee/unestate-di-concerti-in-toscana-10-festival-da-non-perdere/