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Special events and exhibitions on the Island of Elba

Concerts, local feasts, sports and cultural events

Visiting the Island of Elba during events, festivals, and folk celebrations will surely add value to your vacation. You will discover an island that is different from the Elba of the sea and beaches: an island whose roots lie in stories of ancient peoples and medieval beliefs, an island made of music, dances, flavors, colors, and sounds.

And why not choose your arrival dates based on the folk festivals that repeat every year and offer the chance to discover another side of Elba?

If you are passionate trekkers, you could take advantage of the Festival of Walking in spring: a month of guided and completely free excursions to discover the ancient Elban paths; or visit Elba in autumn when food and wine festivals like the Grape Festival or the Chestnut Festival enliven the small villages perched on the hills. In summer, instead, you will find events of all kinds: from costume festivals, such as the beautiful historical reenactment of Innamorata on July 14, to international music festivals.

Infoelba recommends: our network includes the portal Elba Eventi. You will find all the events, concerts, festivals, theater performances, and cinema schedules: there’s always something to do on Elba!

Below, you will find the most important events that have been bringing Elban folk traditions back to life for years, and sometimes for centuries, involving locals and tourists in a whirlwind of emotions.

Spring

Numerous spring special events and exhibitions in Elba: Walking Festival, Napoleonic May, scooter and motorbike gatherings.

Elba Rally

The history of this competition is one of the longest and most important in the world.

Walking Festival

In Elba, The Tuscan Archipelago Park organizes a month of trekking excursions and events in connection with walking, nature and the discovery of the past.

Scooter Rally gathering

One of the most important Vespa and Lambretta gatherings in Italy is the Tuscan Scooter Rally, held in Capoliveri on the island for the past ten years.

Sportella festival

For centuries, in the Hermitage of Santa Caterina,on Easter Monday, the festival of the "Sportella", the typical Rio nell'Elba lovers' cake, has taken place.

Napoleonic May

In Portoferraio, where Napoleon was exiled for 300 days, a mass is held in the Misericordia Church to pray for the soul of the Emperor .

May Festival

The "May" is a traditional festival in Campo, when boys and girls exchange love serenades and the typical cake called "Corollo".

Summer

Many musucal exhibitions and historical revivals in summer in Elba: the Lovers' Legend, Mediterranean Jazz Festival.

Magnetic Festival

A Festival, born in 2015, dedicated to every type of musical art: operetta, opera, classical and Baroque music.

Raffaello Brignetti Literary Prize

Since 1962 the Island of Elba Literary Prize has been a feather in its culture cap. More than 2000 books and authors have been examined over 45 years.

Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei Prize

The Prize, born in 2008, dedicated to Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, writer and journalist, then assistant editor of the Corriere della Sera and editor of Il Tempo

Legend of the Betrothed

Historical remake and challenges along the lanes of Capoliveri, in memory of the tragic way Maria and Lorenzo were separated.

Santa Chiara the Patron Saint

The Santa Chiara celebration is famous above all for its splendid fireworks that go off in time to music, organized by the Comune of Marciana Marina.

Elba, European Music Island

For over fifteen tears, this classical and jazz festival has taken place every September, with international artists performing live in Portoferraio.

Elba Film Festival

The Elba Film Festival is an independant cinema review of the month of September. It was born with the aim of creating a special space for worldwide film makers

Autumn

Fter the summer, Elba offers both sports and food and wine special events, like the famous Elba Rally, the Grape Festival, the Chestnut Festival in Poggio.

Elba Historic Rally

The unforgettable Elba Rally has seen many famous champions in more than twenty-three years, as have the Elba Historic Rally and the Elba Graffiti.

Elbaman Triathlon

National and international sportsmen and ironmen have been taking part in this extreme triathlon competition for years that is held in Marina di Campo.

Grape Festival

Grapes, wine and the Capoliveri traditions are renewed every year in one of the most beautiful traditional celebrations in Elba.

Chestnut Festival

Gastronomic, environmental, and cultural initiatives that enliven Marciana and Poggio, along with the beautiful surroundings painted in the colors of autumn.

Winter

Even in winter Elba comes to life with many special events: Christmas markets, feasts in the squares, food and wine feasts.

Christmas markets in Sant'Ilario

Every year the tiny village of Sant'Ilario on the hilss above Marina di Campo, looks just like a Christmas card with Christmas lights, perfumes and sounds.

New Year's Eve in the square

Food and wine stalls, concerts and shows, fireworks on the sea for years have brought in the new year in the Medicean town of Portoferraio.

Hilarious donkey race

The donkey race is now one of the main traditional events in Elba. Food and wine stalls, as well as live music, along the streets in the town centre.

Special events of the past

Special events and exhibitions once organized on the Island of Elba.

Children's Islandl Elba Festival

Activities, special events, laboratories and shows for children with a special conclusion in Sant'Ilario.

Mediterranean Jazz Festival

A jazz festival, where young musicians make a name for themselves on a top level stage.

World Music

After the great success of the previous editions, every year for two evenings World Music offers famous artists from all over the world.

Elba Rowing Race

Very exciting male and female races, often fought right up to the last second, bring locals together and make them very proud to be from Elba.

A. Vespucci Sailing Trophy

For over fifteen years, the Amerigo Vespucci, the most famous training ship in the world, has landed in Portoferraio as a head for deep sea sailing regattas.