🔔 The Italian Almanac

August 25

Stories and curiosities for August 25, 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… 17

17 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 25

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Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Bojano

Feast of Saint Bartholomew

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August Bojano celebrates Saint Bartholomew the apostle, in the co-cathedral whose crypt holds a Norman apse built over a spring.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Torgiano

Feast of Saint Bartholomew

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August Torgiano celebrates Saint Bartholomew in the church named after him, at the close of the Umbrian summer.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 San Miniato

Feast of Saint Genesius

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August San Miniato celebrates Saint Genesius, a saint who comes from a vanished village: the one whose people climbed up here in the 13th century.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Greci

Feast of San Bartolomeo and Sacred Drama

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August Greci, a municipality of 736 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo the apostle with the Sacred Drama performed by the villagers.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 La Valle

Feast of San Genesio

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August La Valle, a municipality of 1,299 inhabitants in the province of Bolzano, celebrates its patron San Genesio.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Barolo

Feast of San Luigi dei Francesi

📅 Every year, on 25 August

On 25 August Barolo, a municipality of 705 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Luigi dei Francesi (Saint Louis of France).

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Custonaci

Our Lady of Custonaci, who came ashore in a storm

📅 Every year, on the last Wednesday of August

Custonaci celebrates its Madonna on the last Wednesday of August; tradition holds that the 15th-century painting venerated in the sanctuary arrived by sea, a gift from a French ship that survived a storm thanks to a vow.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 San Ginesio

Saint Genesius the Martyr and the Battle of the Fornarina

📅 Every year, on 25 August; Medievalia and the Palio at Ferragosto

San Ginesio celebrates Saint Genesius the Martyr on 25 August. Around Ferragosto, Medievalia is held, opening with the re-enactment of the Battle of the Fornarina, recalling the treacherous 1377 assault by the people of Fermo.

Patron saint festival In 302 days 📍 Suno

Saint Genesius, patron of the town of the strawberry grape hills

📅 Every year, on 25 August; August also brings the strawberry grape festival, grown on the hills of Suno

Suno celebrates Saint Genesius of Rome on 25 August, in the parish church dedicated to him; on the area's hills, both strawberry grapes, celebrated with a traditional festival in August, and wine are produced, so much so that the town is part of the Wine Towns network.