🔔 The Italian Almanac

August 1

Stories and curiosities for August 1, from the Italy of a thousand bell towers.

No story for this day yet: here are the towns celebrating and the village of the day.

🎉 Celebrations today in… 16

16 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 1

Food festival 📍 Gangi

Sagra della Spiga

📅 Every year in the first ten days of August; the Demeter procession closes on the second Sunday of the month

Gangi gives the first days of August to its wheat festival, now past sixty editions. The high point is the Corteo di Demetra on the second Sunday, closed by a comedy in local dialect.