If you were at Borgo di Vagli in your Tuscan residence in the coming month, below are a few attractions to consider visiting.
Cortona Mix Festival 2013
Cortona
27-07-13 | 04-10-13
The Cortona Mix Festival was born in 2012 when the Feltrinelli Group and the City of Cortona met and decided to create an appointment to promote the mixture of arts, their bounty and variety, their ability to continuously invent new suggestions.
From Saturday 27th July to Sunday 4th August, with a preview on the 26th July, Cortona tranforms into an experimental workshop for the second edition of the Festival. One, one hundred, one thousand paths intersect, develop and intertwine in the streets, squares and theatres of Cortona – with concerts, shows, performances, dialogues, presentations with Italian and international guests, in which music and literature, cinema and theatre, dance and dj sets, journalism and non-fiction writing, enogastronomy and society are the protagonists of a transversal panorama, built on the basis of debate, curiosity, on the balance between quiet reflection and entertainment.
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Cortona Steak Festival (Sagra della Bistecca)
Cortona
14/15/16 August 2013 from 6.00 to 11.00 pm
La Sagra della Bistecca in Cortona is one of the most important food events in Cortona and is held every year at the “Giardini del Parterre” (public gardens).
T-bone steaks strictly Chianina beef are grilled on the largest bar-b-que in Italy, according to the old Tuscan tradition. In addition vegetables, fruit bread and the menu includes fine wine or Chianti Cortona Doc. At the “Sagra della Bistecca” you will find not only steaks but also stands with typical Tuscan foods from the Cortona area.
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Bravio delle Botti
Montepulciano
25th August 2013
In an atmosphere full of charm and magic takes place every year in Montepulciano an arduous uphill race: a race of wine barrels called Bravìo. The Bravìo delle Botti is the challenge between eight districts: Cagnano, Collazzi, Le Coste, Gracciano Poggiolo, San Donato, and Talosa Voltaia It is spread all along the historic city center, rolling the barrels approximately 80 kg each, along a path to climb over a kilometer.
The barrels are rolled by two athletic "pushers", while the route of the race winds through the picturesque streets of the historic center of the city until the arrival of Montepulciano located on the square of the Duomo in Piazza Grande. For those who love to experience historical, folk events, this is one of those not to be missed!!!
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