🔔 The Italian Almanac

August 5

Stories and curiosities for August 5, 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… 37

37 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 5

Nostra Signora della Neve 2

Santa Maria ad Nives 2

Patron saint festival In 329 days 📍 Ascoli Piceno

Feast of Saint Emygdius

📅 Every year, on 5 August

On 5 August Ascoli celebrates Saint Emygdius, titular of the cathedral. It is also the month of the Quintana, the equestrian joust whose procession sets out from Piazza del Popolo.