For centuries the town at the centre of Sicily was called Castrogiovanni. In 1927 the Fascist regime made it a provincial capital and, before the year was out, restored its ancient classical name: Enna. Girgenti met the same fate that year, renamed Agrigento by royal decree. Yet the cancelled names never quite died: in 2016, at the suggestion of the writer Andrea Camilleri, Agrigento's historic centre officially took back the name Girgenti.
In the small spring-fed lake of Posta Fibreno, in the Lazio region south-east of Rome, floats a genuine wandering island. Locals call it la Rota, the wheel: a disc of peat, rhizomes and roots about thirty metres across and four metres thick, shaped like a cone with its tip pointing down. A light breeze, or a surge from the springs below, is enough to send it drifting and spinning inside its flooded sinkhole. Nothing new, either: Pliny the Elder described it almost two thousand years ago.
📍 Posta Fibreno →As summer fades, the white truffle, Tuber magnatum, begins to ripen, and the woods of southern Piedmont, in north-west Italy, fill again with searchers. The capital of the trade is Alba, in the Langhe hills, home to the oldest fair devoted to the white truffle, a tradition linked to the name of Giacomo Morra; every year the nearby castle of Grinzane Cavour hosts a world auction of the tubers. The season starting now runs through autumn and into winter.
📍 Alba →3 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on September 25
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📅 Every year, on 25 September
On 25 September Torre Santa Susanna celebrates Maria SS. di Galaso with the procession of the statue; the other patron, Saint Susanna, gives the town its name and is celebrated on 11 August with lights and fireworks.
📅 Every year, on 25 September
On 25 September Boltiere celebrates Saint Aurelia; the village's main church is dedicated to Saint George.
📅 Every year, on 25 September
On 25 September Santa Caterina Villarmosa celebrates the patron the municipality is named after; the village also preserves the Castello di Risicudia.
📅 Every year, on 25 September
On 25 September Loranzè celebrates its patrons Saint Lawrence and Saint Firminus of Amiens; the village's parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Bagnacavallo celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel, the town's most important feast; only during the celebrations do local bakers sell the honey and dried-fruit "dolce di San Michele".
📅 Every year, from 25 to 28 September
Alberobello's patrons are two physicians, Cosmas and Damian, and their feast runs four days: 25 to 28 September, with the relics kept in the basilica named after them.
📅 Every year, from 25 to 27 September
From 25 to 27 September Riace celebrates the physician saints Cosmas and Damian; devotees from nearby towns walk to the sanctuary dedicated to them.
📅 Every year, from 25 to 28 September
From 25 to 28 September Tocco Caudio celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian at the sanctuary dedicated to them.
📅 Every year, from the Friday before the fourth Sunday of September to the following Monday, jointly celebrating Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and Saint Roch
Modugno jointly celebrates Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, its patron, and Saint Roch of Montpellier, its protector, from the Friday before the fourth Sunday of September to the following Monday, with both popular and religious events.
