Zungoli Chicozza Festival

The 2025 edition in Zungoli

On Thursday, August 28, 2025, at 8:00 PM, Piazza Municipio in Zungoli, province of Avellino, hosted the Zungoli Chicozza Festival. The public followed a tasting tour built around the chicozza, the local variety of long, white-fleshed pumpkin that village families used to slice and sun-dry to have a supply during the winter.

Alongside traditional Irpinian peasant dishes, there were typical products from the upper Ufita Valley, particularly cheeses aged in the tufa caves that open up beneath the historic center. The evening concluded with folk music by the group Rare Antica, featuring tarantellas and square dancing.

The event confirmed the festival's role as an identity showcase for inland Campania: a village event, managed by local associations, which in just one evening manages to tell the story of an ancient preservation technique and fill the alleys of one of Italy's most beautiful villages.