Banchette Pignoletto Rosso Corn Festival

The 2025 Edition

The Banchette Pignoletto Rosso Corn Festival returned on October 25 and 26, 2025, enlivening the streets of the center with its customary market exhibition of food and artisanal products from Piedmont, the Aosta Valley, and Liguria. Tastings of polenta concia and Canavese specialties were centered at the Via Roma bocce court.

Highlights of the year included: the "At the Court of King Pignoletto" historical costume parade, threshing and milling demonstrations, an educational farm, as well as displays of Lego brick creations, model airplanes with flight simulators, vintage cars, and Olivetti memorabilia, with Occitan music and storytellers accompanying the days.

Saturday, October 25, from 2:00 PM: opening at the Emilio Pinchia hall with a Lego brick exhibition curated by the Torino Bricks association; at 5:00 PM, along Via Roma, the "At the Court of King Pignoletto" historical costume parade; from 6:30 PM, at the Via Roma bocce court, tasting of 2025 harvest polenta with sausage, stew, braised beef, chicken cacciatore, and cheeses. Throughout the two days: market exhibition of local products, corn threshing and milling, educational farm, model airplane exhibition with flight simulator by the Eolo Modeling Group, Olivetti "Memories and History" exhibition, and the "Dollhouse" display.

The "At the Court of King Pignoletto" parade, the tasting of new harvest polenta, and the exhibitions dedicated to Lego bricks and Olivetti history.