Last minute Events Foligno

Music - Baroque Impressions - Foligno from 28th august to 18th september: musical shows, plays and exhibitions characterized by the baroque...
Festivity - Christmas 2005 - the city of Foligno is organizing the following programme:...
Music - Festival Claviorgano Foligno - From 16 to 20 november to Foligno Auditorium San Domenico I° edition of International festival of claviorgano....

Since 1999, the best Italian and international chef meet at Foligno together with employees in the catering business and prestigious food-and-wine critics, who measure themselves preparing and tasting regional and national first courses. The event has attracted in very short time great attention, also due to the many accompanying initiatives like trainings, competitions and cultural and entertaining spectacles.

January-April: Feast of the Palazzo - Every year since the first edition in 2003, some of the hundreds of historical residences are picked out at Foligno and its environs, where take place remarkable evenings dedicated to one of the arts, like music, literature or painting. The event has the aim to revalue the historical Palazzos of the territory, filling them with life and carrying them back to their former glamour, and to make them the centres of enjoyable cultural activities.
April: Dantesque Celebration - The occurrence celebrates the event that made the typographer Johann Numeister from Mainz, Emiliano Orfini from Foligno and Evangelista Angelini from Trevi on The 11^th April 1472 carry out the first stamped edition of the Divine Comedy. The celebrations include conferences, a series of readings of Dante aiming at the promotion of the reading of and the enthusiasm for the book, which is considered an irreplaceable support.
April: La Scrittura & l'Immagine, Exhibition Market of the Ancient Book - The event is promoted by the UNESCO and houses the display of the Umbrian and national editors in a fair which is dedicated to antique books. During the exhibition stalls are set out, conferences are held and the best works in the field of book trade regarding antique books.
May: Accademia della Misticanza - Event, which fuses gastronomy, arts and the Middle Ages to an extraordinary result, that serves as a forerunner of the tournament Giostra della Quintana and is organized by three neighbourhoods in their quarters. It is a long path where one can taste ancient dishes, visit the rooms of the Oratorio della Nunziatella where the fresco painted by Perugino is kept, and all that is adorned with medieval costumes and music.
July: Canti & Discanti - The event is entirely dedicated to the memory of Vincenzo Fojetta and his work, a citizen of Foligno who was born in 1940 and became the precursor on the field of research of the traditional Umbrian music. The musianti &ac spectacle has the aim to make famous the interpreters and instruments of this genuine local folklore music with shows in the most typical places of the town.
July: Humorfest - The International Show of Humour was resumed by Foligno in the 80ies and has reached a very high quality level, it houses comical, humorous and satiric artists who come from all parts of Italy and from all over the world and who measure themselves with the subject given by the event. 
August: Exhibition Market and Festival of the Red Potato of Colfiorito - Nearing the 30^th edition the event obtains every year a widespread success among the public and the visitors. It takes place in the village Colfiorito, in the mountains between Umbria and the Marches, and besides to singing events, prize contests and the display of the Red Mountain Potato one can taste local products.
September: Baroque Signs Festival - It is a wide-ranging event entirely dedicated to the Baroque taste and its expressive forms, which in the course of the following centuries influenced the common taste and the customs. In the course of the event processions in period costumes, theatre, singing and film performances follow each other in different places at Foligno and its surroundings with the participation of famous national and international artists.
December: Foligno and Beata Angela - In the birthplace of the famous mystic from Foligno meetings, conferences, publications and competitions are organized with the aim to promote the fame of the figure of Beata Angela.
December: Vinumbro - Presentation and tasting of the best wines of the Umbrian wineries.