San Chiaffredo: Culinary Trails, Festivals and Play Areas

San Chiaffredo di Busca combines a culinary walk, gastronomic evenings, a 5-kilometre run and signposted play stations. These activities have different focuses, but each remains specific: on the walk, the route and refreshments are key; at the patron saint’s festival, the programme; in the run, the distance and character; and at the playgrounds, the courses and individual stations. The individual formats can be considered separately in your itinerary without mixing up their respective features. The combination of formats allows you to alternate between routes, event sections and individual stops.

Mangia e Cammina: six stops along the route

“Mangia e Cammina” centres on a culinary walk in San Chiaffredo di Busca. The format follows a route with several stops and provides for staggered group starts; there are six refreshment stations in total. The schedule therefore combines a set sequence of route sections with several stops. The six stations give the culinary route fixed stopping points, while the staggered group starts organise the beginning. For planning your day, this means that the walk is shaped by several route and refreshment points, not by a single stop.

Patron saint’s festival between Busca and Tarantasca

The San Chiaffredo patron saint’s festival is organised by Pro Loco San Chiaffredo and returns in 2026 as an event between Busca and Tarantasca. The programme includes gastronomic evenings and an exhibition by the Vespa Club Busca. The evenings give the festival a culinary focus, while the exhibition adds a distinct connection to the club to the programme. Those interested in local festivals will therefore find not only a gastronomic event here, but also a clearly defined exhibition.

Corri e Camina a Sancia: five kilometres

“Corri e Camina a Sancia” is a non-competitive 5-kilometre run in Chiaffredo di Busca. In 2026, it will take place for the eighth time. The distance gives the sporting format a clearly defined framework for personal day planning, while its non-competitive character is expressly retained.

Play areas in San Chiaffredo

The section of Busca’s spacious playground in San Chiaffredo includes a double play course and a large multidirectional dinosaur. There is also a station with several games at the primary school in San Chiaffredo. The games are signposted and geolocated in the “kids” section of the tabUi app. The two areas therefore differ in their specific design: here, the double course with dinosaur; there, the additional play station at the primary school.

Orientation on site

Provincial Road 589 leads in the direction of the San Chiaffredo hamlet. For information about Mass times, contact the San Chiaffredo parish directly. Those interested in Mass times can obtain the relevant information from the parish; for geographical orientation, Provincial Road 589 points towards San Chiaffredo.

Other places for your travel planning include Camerana, Levice, Robilante, Barbaresco, Limone Piemonte, Prazzo Superiore, San Giacomo and Camo.

For the broader travel overview: Cuneo.