🔔 The Italian Almanac

August 6

Stories and curiosities for August 6, 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… 15

15 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on August 6

Festival 📍 Castelbuono

Ypsigrock Festival

📅 Every year, four days in early August

Four days of indie and alternative music at the foot of the Ventimiglia castle. Running since 1997, Italy's first boutique festival has one house rule: no artist ever plays it twice.

Palio 📍 Cefalù

'Ntinna a mari

📅 Every year on the afternoon of 6 August

A long pole slicked with grease and soap juts out over the old harbour; whoever walks it and grabs the flag at the tip wins. Cefalù's greasy-pole contest closes the Feast of the Saviour every 6 August.