Annual Italy Events

Olive and bruschetta festivals. This celebration of the olive harvest features bruschetta which is a country  flat bread rubbed with garlic and drizzled with newly pressed extra-virgin olive oil. A group of olive pickers parades on their tractors from the countryside into the town singing folk songs and carrying branches cut from the olive trees. Joined by the townspeople, they proceed to three taverns, one for each neighborhood of the city, which for this special day serve hot mulled wine, roast pork, grilled sausages, white beans and polenta. There is constant passing out of free samples of bruschetta and folk groups performing songs and popular dances to liven up the festival (called the Saltarello). www.prospello.it