🔔 The Italian Almanac

December 7

Stories and curiosities for December 7, 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… 36

36 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on December 7

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Stresa

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Stresa celebrates Saint Ambrose, with the church of Saints Ambrose and Theodulus: a winter date, when Lake Maggiore has closed its season.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Treville

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Treville celebrates its patron Saint Ambrose, to whom one of the churches of this small Monferrato town is dedicated.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Spigno Monferrato

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Spigno Monferrato celebrates its patron Saint Ambrose; the town also keeps a thanksgiving procession dating to 1630 and the memory of Saint Emerentiana, which became a symbolic local feast.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Sormano

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Sormano celebrates its patron Saint Ambrose, to whom the town's main church is dedicated.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Castel del Rio

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Castel del Rio celebrates its patron Saint Ambrose; the town is known for the Sagra del Marrone, the oldest festival of the Santerno valley, founded in 1956.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Caslino d'Erba

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Caslino d'Erba celebrates its patron Saint Ambrose; the town is also known for the Festa delle Capre, held every September.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Alassio

Feast of Saint Ambrose

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Alassio celebrates Saint Ambrose, bishop of Milan, in the parish church that has borne his name since 1507.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Laconi

Feast of Saint Ambrose and Saint Ignatius

📅 Every year, on 7 December

Laconi celebrates its patrons Saint Ambrose and Saint Ignatius on 7 December; the town's most beloved feast, however, remains that of Saint Anthony the Abbot, with its great bonfires known as "fogones".

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella

Saint Ambrose, patron amid the hamlet feasts of Valpolicella

📅 Every year, on 7 December, amid the many hamlet feasts, from the Gargagnago Cherry Festival to the Domeiara

Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December, in the church dedicated to him. The hamlets fill the year with their own feasts, from the Cherry Festival at Gargagnago to the Santa Maria Maddalena feast at Ponton, to the Domeiara feast at Domegliara.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Lonate Pozzolo

Saint Ambrose, patron between the Lonate Carnival and the Caminàa da l'Ulia

📅 Every year, on 7 December, with the Lonate Carnival and the Caminàa da l'Ulia night walk

Lonate Pozzolo celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December, in the church dedicated to him. The town also holds the Lonate Carnival, on the afternoon of Shrove Saturday under the Ambrosian rite with a parade of floats, and the Caminàa da l'Ulia, a spring night walk on the Saturday before Palm Sunday.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Orero

Saint Ambrose, patron of a town tied to slate working

📅 Every year, on 7 December

Orero celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December, in the parish church dedicated to him; the hamlet of Isolona preserves the memory of the quarrying of «pietra fontanina» stone and the first machines used to process slate blocks.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Carate Brianza

Saint Ambrose, patron of the town of the Befana sul Lambro

📅 Every year, on 7 December; a living nativity is held on 26 December at the Basilica di Agliate

Carate Brianza celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December; on 26 December a living nativity scene is held at the Basilica di Agliate, while since 1987 the Befana sul Lambro has been celebrated on 5 January on the Agliate bridge.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Monserrato

Saint Ambrose, patron of the town of the Grape Harvest Festival

📅 Every year, on 7 December; the Grape Harvest Festival is held on the last Sunday of September

Monserrato celebrates Saint Ambrose on 7 December; in August the feast of Saint Lawrence is also celebrated, while on 8 September, before the start of the grape harvest, the celebrations for the Blessed Virgin Mary take place, followed on the last Sunday of the month by the Grape Harvest Festival.

Patron saint festival In 41 days 📍 Milan

Sant'Ambrogio

📅 Every year, on 7 December

On 7 December Milan celebrates its patron. From the same day until the following Sunday the city holds the Oh Bej! Oh Bej!, its old Christmas market.