Events of the week end in Florence and surroundings

In Oltrarno on September 26-28 you can find between Piazza S Spirito, Piazza della Passera and Piazza Pitti the Florence wine event and as the word say you can taste all the best Tuscan and Italian wine: from Morellino to Brunello and Barolo. Concerts and dinners all over these squares and on a Sunday a market…the bad note is that at 10pm everything shuts down.

Speaking about wine we cannot forget the most famous wine event of Tuscany in Impruneta. The wine fair takes place on Sunday at 3,30pm and as every year there’s the flats parade with the four area (rione) of the Chianti village: Pallò,S.Marie, Fornaci and S.Antonio.

Another wine fair is near Siena in this tiny medieval village called Vagliagli (September 25th-28th). This tiny village will be a show case of typical Tuscan products and wine tasting than another floats parade inspired by country life with men and women dressed in traditional costumes.

And for those of you who like the so-called sagre, festivals, in Certaldo there’s the T-bone steak and porcini mushroom festival instead closer to Florence, in San Donnino there’s the pork festival. They start at 7,30pm with tasting of Tuscan delicatessen, ham, salami, crostini and lard then pasta dishes with sauces with a pork base and as a second dish; sausages, aristae, pork meat, mixed grilled…