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18 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 1
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August (Saint Joseph's day is 19 March)
Bagheria's patron is Saint Joseph, whose day is 19 March, but the town celebrates him on the first Sunday of August: a week of shows and fireworks on the Monday evening.
📅 Every year, on 1 and 2 August
On 1 and 2 August Petina, a municipality of 1,214 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates its patron Saint Onuphrius the Hermit (sant'Onofrio eremita).
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Cuceglio, a municipality of 997 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron saints Eusebio and Pietro.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Castelletto di Branduzzo, a municipality of 1,037 inhabitants in the province of Pavia, celebrates its patron saints Siro and Alberto.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Moncrivello, a municipality of 1,465 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron San Eusebio.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Fossato Serralta, a municipality of 614 inhabitants in the province of Catanzaro, celebrates its patron San Francesco da Paola.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Alagna, a municipality of 882 inhabitants in the province of Pavia, celebrates its patron San Germano d'Auxerre.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August San Gregorio Matese, a municipality of 1,022 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, celebrates its patron San Gregorio Magno.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Margarita, a municipality of 1,432 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Leone Magno.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Arborio, a municipality of 909 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron San Martino.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Casola in Lunigiana, a municipality of 1,003 inhabitants in the province of Massa-Carrara, celebrates its patron San Pellegrino.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Gottasecca, a municipality of 174 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Pietro in Vincoli.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Castellino del Biferno, a municipality of 589 inhabitants in the province of Campobasso, celebrates its patron San Pietro in Vincoli.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Issiglio, a municipality of 425 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron San Pietro in Vincoli.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Limone Piemonte, a municipality of 1,490 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Pietro in Vincoli.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Biandrate, a municipality of 1,200 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Sereno di Marsiglia.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Agrate Conturbia, a municipality of 1,554 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron San Vittore.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Castelletto Merli, a municipality of 484 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Sant'Eusebio di Vercelli.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Camagna Monferrato, a municipality of 510 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patron Sant'Eusebio di Vercelli.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Marsaglia, a municipality of 261 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Sant'Eusebio di Vercelli.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Santo Stefano Lodigiano, a municipality of 1,902 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, celebrates its patron Sant'Ignazio di Loyola.
📅 Every year, from 1 to 16 August, with the solemn feast on the 15th
From 1 to 16 August Caramanico Terme, a municipality of 2,008 inhabitants in the province of Pescara, celebrates its patroness Maria Santissima Assunta, with the Favoni, the palmentieri and the ballo della pupa.
📅 Every year, in the first week of August
In the first week of August Cossano Canavese, a municipality of 522 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron Santo Stefano primo martire.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Clavesana, a municipality of 900 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates the Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows), with polenta and sausage.
📅 Every year, during the first week of August
Bova Marina celebrates Our Lady of the Sea, or Stella Maris, during the first week of August: she has been patron since a group of fishermen found an ancient sacred painting on the seabed.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; the second if it coincides with the patronal feast of Vercelli
On the first Sunday of August Pezzana, a municipality of 1,346 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Eusebius (sant'Eusebio).
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Fontaneto d'Agogna celebrates Saint Alexander on the first Sunday of August.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Rosolini celebrates Saint Aloysius Gonzaga on the first Sunday of August; his relic, a jawbone, is kept in the 18th-century mother church of San Giuseppe, which rose beside the core of the fief where the princes' residence once stood.
📅 Every year, on 1 August; the Madonna delle Galline is celebrated from the Friday of Easter week to the following Sunday
Pagani celebrates Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori on 1 August, in the basilica dedicated to him; the feast of the Madonna delle Galline, a deeply felt religious and civic event, is instead held from the Friday of Easter week to the following Sunday.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August (civic feast); 26 July is the liturgical feast
Corneliano d'Alba celebrates Saint Anne: the religious feast falls on 26 July, while the civic patronal feast is held the first Sunday of August. The first Sunday of November also hosts the Fiera di San Carlo.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Monteroni di Lecce celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on the first Sunday of August.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Calci celebrates Saint Ermolaus on the first Sunday of August, in the Pieve dei Santi Giovanni ed Ermolao. The town also hosts the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa.
📅 Every year, on 1 August, with the burning of the balloon the eve before
Casciago celebrates Saint Eusebius on 1 August. The eve, 31 July, opens the feast with the burning of a flammable balloon hung in the square.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
Cavagnolo celebrates Saint Eusebius on 1 August, in the church dedicated to him and Saint Secundus.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Bollengo celebrates Saint Eusebius on the first Sunday of August, in the church dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; the savoy cabbage festival is held the last Sunday of November
Montalto Dora celebrates Saint Eusebius on the first Sunday of August; every year, on the last Sunday of November, the savoy cabbage festival is held, celebrating the area's best-known agricultural product, while in February the Montalto Carnival features the Castellana as its protagonist.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
Vercelli celebrates Saint Eusebius on 1 August; the city's first bishop and patron of all Piedmont, of Sardinian origin, he founded the sanctuary of Oropa and spread the cult of the Black Madonna, imported from the Holy Land.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Carrodano celebrates Saint Felicity on the first Sunday of August, in the parish church of its main village; the town, in the Vara valley, also includes the parishes of San Giovanni Battista at Mattarana and San Bartolomeo at Carrodano Superiore.
📅 Every year, on 1 August; the IT.A.CÀ festival in September
Villagrande Strisaili celebrates Saint Gabriel the Archangel on 1 August. Every September, the IT.A.CÀ responsible tourism festival is held.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Nissoria celebrates Saint Joseph on the first Sunday of August; in the district of Torre, from the 6th century, stood ancient Nysura, a colony founded by eastern immigrants who introduced there the cult of Saint Gregory, patriarch of the Armenians.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Cavour celebrates Saint Lawrence on the first Sunday of August.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
San Leo celebrates Saint Leo on 1 August. The town holds the memory of a stay by Saint Francis of Assisi in May 1213.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August, with the Palio dei Rioni di Cori
Cori celebrates Saint Oliva of Anagni on the first Sunday of August, in the square dedicated to her. The town relives its history with the Palio dei Rioni di Cori.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; on 25 January the Conversion of Saint Paul
Solarino celebrates Saint Paul the Apostle on the first Sunday of August; the town takes its name from the apostle's three-day stop at Syracuse in AD 61, according to local tradition.
📅 Every year, on 1 August; Our Lady of Loreto, co-patroness, is celebrated the second Sunday of September
Lanzo Torinese celebrates Saint Peter in Chains on 1 August; co-patroness is Our Lady of Loreto, whose feast, on the second Sunday of September, is the richest in attractions in town. In the lower borgata, the chapel of San Bernardo is celebrated on the Sunday closest to 20 August.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Donnas celebrates Saint Peter in Chains; at the start of October, instead, the grape and chestnut festival celebrates the local variety that may give the town its name.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
In Madignano, Saint Peter in Chains is celebrated on the first Sunday of August. The Fiera del Marzale, of 18th-century origin, grew out of the Easter Resurrection celebrations.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
On the first Sunday of August Calascibetta celebrates Saint Peter in Chains; the mother church, founded in 1340 by King Peter II of Sicily, was raised to Royal Palatine Chapel.
📅 Every year, on 1 August
Castellaro celebrates Saint Peter in Chains on 1 August, in the Baroque church built between 1619 and 1634 precisely where the town's old castle, destroyed in 1341, once stood, and which houses works by the Genoese sculptor Anton Maria Maragliano.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August (liturgical date 16 August)
Serra Riccò celebrates Saint Roch on the first Sunday of August; the sanctuary dedicated to him in the hamlet of Pedemonte was raised in the 16th century in thanks for having protected the population from the terrible Black Death epidemic.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August (liturgical date 20 January)
Graniti celebrates Saint Sebastian on the first Sunday of August, although the liturgical date falls on 20 January; the town has three churches, the main one dedicated to Saint Basil the Great, one to the patron, and a third tied to a convent of Franciscan nuns.
📅 Every year, on 1 August; the Sant'Antonino fair dates to 1686
Pofi celebrates Saint Sebastian on 1 August.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Bagnolo Cremasco celebrates Saint Stephen the Protomartyr on the first Sunday of August, in the church dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Corteolona e Genzone celebrates Saint Stephen on the first Sunday of August, in the church dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Monticelli Brusati celebrates Saint Zeno on the first Sunday of August, one of the town's two patronal feasts.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Bisceglie celebrates Saints Maurus, Sergius and Pantaleon on the first Sunday of August; according to tradition, Sergius and Pantaleon were two knights who arrived to arrest Bishop Maurus, who instead converted them to Christianity before their martyrdom.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; Saint Nicholas of Bari, co-patron, on 6 December
Cisternino celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julitta on the first Sunday of August, the «feast of San Quirico» that marks the end of summer for locals and visitors alike; Saint Nicholas of Bari, co-patron, is celebrated on 6 December instead.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August, with the re-enactment of the siege of the Turks
Tollo celebrates Santa Maria del Rosario on the first Sunday of August, with the historical re-enactment of the siege of the Turks: at 12 noon sharp, in the piazza Caduti di Nassirya, a wooden tower is erected.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Boffalora sopra Ticino celebrates its patron, Santa Maria della Neve, on the first Sunday of August.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August
Cavriglia celebrates the Blessed Berta on the first Sunday of August.
📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of August; the Immaculate, co-patron, is celebrated on 8 December
Sciara celebrates the Holy Crucifix on the first Sunday of August; the town was founded by Filippo Notarbartolo Cipolla on the fief that had belonged to Baroness Eleonora Cipolla, daughter of the first baron of Sciara.
📅 Every year, between July and September
A festival that lasts a whole summer — music, art, poetry and trekking, with concerts at dawn and Ligurian breakfast.
📅 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.
