🔔 The Italian Almanac

January 11

Stories and curiosities for January 11, 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… 4

4 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on January 11

Other saints of the day 1

Patron saint festival In 123 days 📍 Castellana Grotte

The Vetrana and the Fanòve

📅 Every year, the Fanòve on 11 January and the patron on the 12th; the second feast on the last Sunday of April

On 11 January bonfires are lit all over town — the Fanòve, stacks of wood burning on the eve of the patron: the Madonna to whom the townspeople credited their deliverance from the plague.