What's on in April 2026

April in Italy is not a shoulder season. It’s when everything happens at once ancient rituals, design week, Holy Week processions, and a food calendar that briefly makes sense of the country.In this episode: a two-thousand-year-old solar alignment inside the Pantheon, a fireworks cart in Florence that either works or doesn’t, Sicily at its most intense, and Milan at its most self-important.These are five things actually worth your time in Italy this April. Let’s begin.