Feast of Saint Olympius
📅 Every year, on 16 June
On 16 June Lenta, a municipality of 878 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Olympius (sant'Olimpio).
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9 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on June 16
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📅 Every year, on 16 June
On 16 June Lenta, a municipality of 878 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Olympius (sant'Olimpio).
📅 Every year, on 16, 17 and 18 June
On 16, 17 and 18 June Venafro celebrates its martyrs: two Roman soldiers stationed in the town and the wife of one of them, sentenced to death in 303 for refusing to renounce their faith.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Carrara celebrates Saint Ceccardus, bishop and martyr, on 16 June; the town, an international hub for extracting and working the famous Apuan marble, still preserves in Piazza del Duomo the house where Michelangelo Buonarroti stayed.
📅 Every year, on 16 and 17 June
Pisa's patron falls on 17 June, but the night before the city turns off the lights: the Luminara outlines the buildings along the Arno with oil lamps, the high point of the Giugno Pisano.
📅 Every year, on 16 June, with the Festa del Barbarossa on the third Sunday
San Quirico d'Orcia celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julietta on 16 June. On the third Sunday of the month, the four districts compete in the Festa del Barbarossa.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Ternate celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julietta on 16 June. Since 2012, at Parco Berrini, the Woodinstock Music Art Festival combines music, art and sport to raise funds for Parkinson's disease research.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Solaro celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julietta on 16 June.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Paullo celebrates its patrons, Saints Quiricus and Julietta, on 16 June, in the church dedicated to them.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Villa Minozzo celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julietta on 16 June.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Capannori celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julitta on 16 June; the earliest historical records of the village date from 745, when a monk had a chapel built dedicated precisely to Saint Quiricus, around which the first dwellings of ancient Capannole arose.
📅 Every year, on 16 June
Collesalvetti celebrates Saints Quiricus and Julitta on 16 June, in the church dedicated to them.