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Cannara.

Home of Umbria's sweet red onion and its September festival.

Wine Tasting

Cannara is a small town in the Umbrian valley below Assisi, set among flat farmland. The fields here grow the cipolla di Cannara, a sweet red onion celebrated each September at the Festa della Cipolla, when stalls selling onion-based dishes and local wine line the streets to music and crowds. Outside the festival, the pace slows again. Tractors move between vegetable rows, and the small historic centre holds a few churches and stone houses along narrow lanes. Several family-run estates around town grow grapes alongside the onions and open their cellars for tastings, often paired with simple farm meals. The valley floor is flat and easy to cross on foot or by bicycle. Cannara keeps close to its agricultural roots, with the onion festival as its one loud moment in an otherwise steady farming calendar.

Red onionsFesta della CipollaWine productionAgricultural heritageTraditional farming
What you'll do here

Things to do.

  1. 01Attend the Festa della Cipolla red onion festival in September
  2. 02Visit local farms for wine tastings and farm meals
  3. 03Explore the small historic center
  4. 04Cycle through the flat agricultural valley
  5. 05Take day trips to nearby Assisi
Within a short drive

Nearby attractions.

Assisifamous pilgrimage town with Basilica of St. Francis
Spellobeautiful village with Roman gates and flowers
Folignolarger city with cathedral and markets
BevagnaRoman and medieval town with beautiful piazza
Montefalcohilltop wine town with panoramic views
A year in Cannara

Monthly weather.

Best weatherLeast crowded
january9°/2°
Least crowded
70mm
Cold and damp, with quiet streets and empty fields across the valley.
february10°/2°
Least crowded
65mm
Cool with occasional rain; still off-season, good for quiet farm visits.
march13°/4°
60mm
Mild spring weather begins, with fields turning green across the plain.
april17°/7°
55mm
Pleasant and blooming, as vineyards and fields turn green across the valley.
may22°/11°
Best weather
50mm
Warm and comfortable, good for walking the flat countryside around town.
june26°/15°
40mm
Warm summer days settle in, with long light over the fields.
july29°/18°
25mm
Hot and dry, with fields at their fullest before harvest season.
august29°/18°
30mm
Hot with occasional storms; a quiet month before September's onion festival.
september25°/15°
Best weather
45mm
Warm, with harvest activity and the Festa della Cipolla filling the streets.
october19°/11°
Best weather
65mm
Mild and colourful, as vineyards turn ahead of the grape harvest.
november13°/6°
Least crowded
80mm
Cool and wet, with few visitors and a slower pace in town.
december10°/3°
75mm
Cold and damp, quiet before the new year's farming cycle begins.
Averages from the last decade · source: local weather records
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Common questions

Asked & answered.

  • Spring and autumn, especially September, for mild weather and the onion festival
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