This week, roughly 40 kilometers northwest of Spoleto, the town of San Terenziano will hold its famous Porchettiamo pork festival. This annual festival celebrates the iconic street food of Central Italy: porchetta. Porchetta is a whole pig stuffed with herbs and slow-roasted in a wood-fired oven. Since Umbria is the largest pork producing region in Italy, nearly every market and festival in Central Italy will have vendors selling porchetta.

Porchetta sandwiches are probably the most popular Central Italian street food

In San Terenziano, their annual Porchettiamo will be held from June 17-19 this year. Porchettiamo means “Let’s eat pork,” so of course, the festival features porchetta in abundance, but also pork-inspired treats and unique craft beers. As the official Porchettiamo website states, “Porchettiamo is more than a festival. It is a real love declaration!”

Since eating copious amounts of pork does not appeal to everyone, there are also alternative events like a “pork-run” 10-kilometer race, concerts, food education workshops for kids, and guided tours of the medieval town of San Terenziano.

Porchetta is a whole pig stuffed with herbs and slow-roasted in a wood-fired oven

If you can’t make it to San Terenziano this weekend for Porchettiamo, don’t worry. Porchetta is popular across Italy, and Italian immigrants brought this delicious meat to the U.S. nearly 100 years ago. So, if you’re lucky, your local Italian sandwich shop might just sell porchetta.