During the Spring and Summer, Stresa has a full programme of events including free classical concerts, the Stresa Festival, Stresa Jazz Club concerts, Jazz Ascona in Stresa, The Sound of America Honour Band and Chorus and local festivals with al fresco cooking! This page will be updated during the season as dates for other events in Stresa are confirmed.

At local festivals and events serving food the usual practice is to pay at the cash desk and then queue at the food counter and bar for your food and drinks. You can always have a wander along to the food counter to help you decide what you would like. The menu is on a poster by the cash desk. Then find yourself a place at the long trestle tables and enjoy! These are often great local events and you eat and drink very well!

For more information and the full programme for the Stresa Festival Concerts visit

www.stresafestival.eu

Events and concerts in surrounding towns can be found at

www.distrettolaghi.eu/en

For further information about the international Ascona Jazz festival visit

www.jazzascona.com

The whole town gets involved in a show of how life used to be. Buy your bag of Baveno "Francs" and collect your entry certificate from the main kiosk outside the town hall and then follow the trail around the town. All along the trail are examples of jobs and pastimes from time gone by (blacksmith, shepherd, farmer, lumberjack, papermaker, lacemaker, dairy, basket weavers  etc) as well as food stalls where you can use your Baveno "Francs" to enjoy local food or a cup of mulled wine!

Outside town Hall

Parking at Hotel Dino

Celebrate the arrival of the Three Wise Men to the stable in Stresa. Visit the various botteghe with their old-time jobs and pastimes and try poenta and mulled wine in the park of the Villa Ducale.

15.00 Mary and Joseph depart from the Congress Palace for the stable in the park at the Villa Ducale

16.00 The Three Wise men depart from  around the town to go to the stable.