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Carnival of Cosio d'Arroscia

Last edition: 23 February 2025

2026 edition: date to be confirmed

Cosio d'Arroscia · Imperia · Liguria

February 2025Sunday 23 February
232025 edition over.

The village carnival keeps the tradition of the sentenze, the one day a year when people could speak their mind to their lords.

The carnival of Cosio keeps a tradition of its own, the sentenze: according to a medieval legend the lords granted their people a single day a year to say to their faces what they thought of them, and that day was the last one before Lent.

Today the Pro Loco and the town council hold the party in piazza IV Novembre, with a show, hot chocolate, bugie pastries and the pentolaccia game; if it rains everything moves to the Pro Loco's rooms in via Sant'Antonio. The 2025 edition fell on Sunday 23 February.

More events in Cosio d'Arroscia

Food festival

Herb and Lavender Festival

📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of July

A day given to the mountain herbs and lavender of the upper Arroscia valley, on the third Sunday of July.

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While you're in Cosio d'Arroscia

Places to see before or after the feast. All 1 places in Cosio d'Arroscia →

Chiesa di San Pietro

A church perhaps of the tenth century outside the village: presbytery, fresco traces and the Fieschi arms.