Eating Your Way Through Le Marche ~ October 2010

Fall is here! Crisp days, cools nights, the colors are changing & the leaves are falling - I love autumn!

It is also harvest season & there are plenty of local festivals to keep your belly full! Make a weekend or even better a week of it! Our agriturismo is within an hours drive to all these festivals & is the perfect 'home base.'



All the fall photos were taken at our place La Tavola Marche Agriturismo & along our road just this week!

October 2010

Sant'Agata Feltria
Fiera nazionale del tartufo bianco pregiato e prodotti agro-silvo-pastorali - Every Sunday
National fair of the precious white truffle & products from the woods, pastures & farms. Use of the products, tasting of regional gastronomic specialties, cultural events & more starting at 9am in the old center.

Apecchio
Mostra mercato del tartufo e dei prodotti del bosco - 1st Weekend
Exhibition & market of the truffle and products from the woods.

Monte Porzio
Fiera d'ottobre - 1st Sunday & Saturday before
October festival, from the grape to wine, celebrate the grape in the age-old wine cellars of historic XVIII century buildings in the old center.

Novafeltria
Sagra della polenta e dei frutta del sottobosco - 1st Sunday
Polenta & soft fruit of the woods festival starting at 10 - Perticara
Piandimeleto
Festa del fungo - 1st Weekend
Regionl mycologic show - mushroom fair! Congress, gastronomy, natural walks, visits to the mushroom museum in San Sisto.

Auditore
I gironi del baccanale - 1st & 2nd Sunday
The days of Bacchanalia sausage festival (1st Sunday); market fair of wine & local products (2nd Sunday). Starting at 9am
(Casinina 1st & 2nd Sunday)

Pergola
Mostra mercato del tartufo - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Sunday
Exhibition & market of the truffle, gastronomic stands & sale of local products with live entertainment in the old center.

Sant'Angelo in Vado
Mostra nazionale del tartufo bianco - Starting the 2nd Weekend & continuing for 4 weekends
National fair of the precious white truffle and national fair dog show. Fair specializing in the promotion of the white truffle & other typical products, truffle stands & tasting of dishes, arts & crafts, live entertainment, exhibitions & more!

Belforte All'Isauro
Festa del miele e dei prodotti autunnali - 2nd Sunday
Exhibition & market of honey & autumn products. Sweets made with honey prepared according to typical local recipes & traditions. All day in the town center.

Saltara
Mostra micologica - 2nd Sunday
Mushroom festival all day, Calcinelli

Talamello
Fiera delle castagne - 2nd or 3rd Sunday
Chestnut fair, product tasting & sales. Local chestnut based menus. Festivities start at 9am in the old center.

Piobbico
Incontro di cori e Mostra mercato del funo - 3rd Weekend
Choir singing (Saturday) & exhibition and market of the mushroom. An event to promote & commercialize the mushroom & the products of the autumn woods. Stay nestled in these bountiful woods at Agriturismo Ca'Camone only 10 minutes outside of town! Festivites in Brancaleoni castle & in the medieval center.


Lunano
Festa della castagna - 3rd Weekend
Chestnut festival, this annual autumn exhibition promotes food & wines of the province of Pesaro e Urbino.

Aqualanga
Fiera nazionale del tartufo - Last Sunday in October & first weekend in November
National truffle fair, fair specializing in the promotion of the truffle and other typical local products; truffle stands and tastings of typical dishes; arts & crafts, conventions & live entertainment. Starting at 10am in Piazza Mattei

Piobbico
All month La Tavola Marche Agriturismo & Cooking School is offering guided mushroom & truffle hunts into the woods behind our farmhouse! Join a local hunter for an Italian adventure into the woods to find porcini & the prized black & white truffles, mushrooms & more! email: info@latavolamarche.com

Cantiano
Mostra mercato del tartufo bianco - 4th Weekend
Market of the white truffle & stirrup cup festival in the old center.

San Leo
Mercantino della fortezza - 5th Suday (January - December)
Market of the fortress, antiques fair all day in the old center.

San Giorgio di Pesaro
Castagnata delle streghe - last Sunday
Happy Halloween with chestnuts, witches, gastronomy, music & shows - starting at 4pm in the old center

Urbino
Urbino terre di bio diversita
Urbino land of bio-diversity - looking to autumn, market fair of typical food products in the old center.