Fuori di Zucca

Venue: Santa Maria Maggiore. Address: Santa Maria Maggiore (VB) In October Santa Maria Maggiore celebrates Fuori di Zucca, the autumn festival that turns one of the most beautiful villages of the Vigezzo Valley orange. Santa Maria Maggiore, the main center of the Vigezzo Valley in Ossola, the valley of painters famous for its landscapes and elegant villages, dedicates a festival to the pumpkin that fills the historic center with stalls, decorations and autumn flavors. The streets and squares of the village are filled with pumpkins of every shape and color, and the food stalls offer them in every preparation, from risottos to soups, from pastas to desserts, together with the dishes of the Vigezzo and Ossola traditions, accompanied by local products. The festival combines gastronomy with craft markets, exhibitions, workshops, live music and activities for families and children, in an event that celebrates the colors and flavors of the season. Santa Maria Maggiore preserves an elegant historic center, with the houses of the painters and chimney sweeps, a profession that from this valley set out toward Europe and that the village remembers with a dedicated museum, as well as the school of fine arts that formed ge