…at the Ixtlan agricamping in Tatti, Southern Tuscany. Info+ booking:
For more news about Ixtlan agricamping in the pibinko.org network: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=ixtlan
Roccalbegna is the most representative village in the upper Albegna valley, with narrow alleys overlooked by the Aldobrandeschi family fortress. Once a very important locality (actually with more population than Grosseto until the beginning of the 20th century), Roccalbegna is currently the third last municipality with respect to population density, and the last in Tuscany with respect to average pro capita income.
Roccalbegna has an important role in relation to our festival, with Ugo Contini Bonaccossi and his wine production, the restaurant La grotta, and lodging with the cooperativa di comunità David Lazzaretti and albergo La Pietra.
For more information on the festival:
The festival comes from an idea by Irene Pellegrini –travel and migration sociologist, hiking guide, and writer- who also acts as the festival director. The event is supported by municipality of Semproniano, the social promotion association La Piazzoletta, Sentieri Liberi – Murci and by the pibinko.org network.
Pre-order now your Jug Band Colline Metallifere Jubel Tour T-shirt! Above you see a rendering of the design**. This is all hand-carved, -set and -printed by Tattistampa, as you can see below from our video.
Please send us an email at jugbandcm@pibinko.org or a message on +393317539228 with indication on number and size of T-shirts, and will get back to you to confirm payment and delivery options.
The cost per T-shirt is 20 Euro, plus shipping costs where applicable. If you live in localities where we will be performing, or close by, we will be glad to meet you for delivery by hand.
For more information: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or +393317539228
** actual colours and final design may vary slightly, but all the elements (JBCM name, tour name and Ape with instruments) will be on the T-shirt.
T-shirt backdrop by Saiful Islam on Vecteezy.
After A piedi nel Far West – Itinerari enogastronomici maremmani, here is the second book by Irene Pellegrini, summarising her recent research in Southern Tuscany and Northern Latium. One way or another, some of the situations followed by the pibinko.org network are documented here, after being also narrated in the first book. We find palla a 21 (or palla eh!) and the awesome Wolfgang Scheibe with Tattistampa (and a touch of Jug Band Colline Metallifere):
Both books will be presented during the first cross-border hiking festival in the Maremme, in Rocchette di Fazio, Southern Tuscany, June 14 and 15, 2025. You may also order the books from:
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
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For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org
This will be a very peculiar situation: after over 100 years from the last tournaments, and following the historical recollections of a game which was played at the end of the 19th century, the Circolo Culturale “Emilio Agostini” with patronage from the Comune di Sassetta are organizing fot June 28 and 29 the first San Giovanni Palla Eh!/palla a 21 tournament.
Palla eh! or palla 21 is the southern-Tuscan version of a hand ball game which used to be spread in various parts of Europe, and which to date is still played in some (see our map). If you don’t know the game, please have a look at this video report, or visit the palla eh!/palla a 21 section at pibinko.org (https://www.pibinko.org/palla-a-21-or-palla-eh/).
In Sassetta there will be teams from the six hamlets where tournaments have been held since the mid-Seventies in addition to newly-created teams from Sassetta and Castagneto Carducci. Following a series of preparatory events since last September, the are learning to play with the supervision of Danilo Maurelli, one of the senior players from Ciciano.
With the pibinko.org network we have been conducting since 2007 numerous initiatives related to the promotion the game. For this reason we are very please that this tournament is taking place and we are really curious about the developments of this initiative!
Following Sassetta, from mid July on the “traditional” Summer tournaments will be taking place in Tirli, Scalvaia, Ciciano, Torniella, Vetulonia and Piloni (all the dates may be found in this article).
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
With the Jug Band Colline Metallifere we have been invited by Dario Canal together with other musicians (Giacomo Biancalana, Gianmarco Bonnici e Francesco Cecchetti) for a recording session at Shed 626 in Sesto Fiorentino, right next to Florence. Dario is at work on his first album and we are expecting very cool stuff, that you will be able to enjoy this coming autumn. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
Pratically new. For sale due to switch to a smaller car. It corresponds to the model which today is proposed as Husky 300.
It can be collected close to Santo Pietro Belvedere (Pisa). For more information: +393339172400 or micalosapevo@pibinko.org.
Rocchette di Fazio is a hamlet close to Semproniano, which is be the main village in the surroundings of Rocchette di Fazio, and which will be the destination of the hike on Sunday June 15, during the first Maremme Cross-Border Hiking Festival.
Photo Credits: Lucia Azzaro
The first historical trace of Semproniano’s existence dates back to before the year 1000AD, when it was mentioned as “Casale Simpronianu” in a document by the powerful San Salvatore abbey, although it was founded in Roman times by representatives of the Sempronio Gracco family. Its castle, strategically located between Mount Amiata, Saturnia, and the sea had a fundamental role in the passage from the Etruscan to the Roman culture, following the fall of the not-too-distant Vulci.
We are in the inner and wilder part of the hills between the rivers Albegna and Fiora, which in this area are at a higher elevation, as they flow from the feet of the former volcano which now became Mount Amiata.
Semproniano until 1963 was administratively part of the Roccalbegna territory. Today it has around one thousand inhabitants. Thanks to the activity of some local associations, including La Piazzoletta, supporting the festival, and the local administration, the village is one of the key actors in the effort to create a network of trails remaining accessible all year long for hikers in Maremma.
For more information on the festival:
The festival comes from an idea by Irene Pellegrini –travel and migration sociologist, hiking guide, and writer- who also acts as the festival director. The event is supported by municipality of Semproniano, the social promotion association La Piazzoletta, Sentieri Liberi – Murci and by the pibinko.org network.
