🔔 The Italian Almanac

June 19

Stories and curiosities for June 19, 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… 17

17 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on June 19

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Patron saint festival In 236 days 📍 Alcamo

Feast of Maria Santissima dei Miracoli

📅 Every year, from 19 to 21 June

From 19 to 21 June Alcamo holds its greatest feast: it recalls the apparition of 21 June 1547 to two washerwomen, one blind and one deaf, who were healed.

Patron saint festival In 236 days 📍 Granozzo con Monticello

Feast of Saints Gervasius and Protasius

📅 Every year, on 19 June (Saint Mary of the Assumption on 15 August)

On 19 June Granozzo con Monticello, a municipality of 1,432 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates Saints Gervasius and Protasius, patrons of Monticello; in Granozzo the patron is Saint Mary of the Assumption, on 15 August.

Patron saint festival In 236 days 📍 Bormio

Saints Gervasius and Protasius

📅 Every year, on 19 June

On 19 June Bormio celebrates Saints Gervasius and Protasius in the church named after them. In winter the town's districts compete on skis, in the Palio born in 1963.

Patron saint festival In 236 days 📍 Baveno

Saints Gervasius and Protasius, patrons of the town of Umberto Giordano

📅 Every year, on 19 June; the Luthier Competition is an international biennial event

Baveno celebrates Saints Gervasius and Protasius on 19 June, in the church dedicated to them; the town, where composer Umberto Giordano spent long periods of work and holiday, is now home to an important biennial international Luthier Competition.

Festival 📍 Castelbuono

DiVino Festival

📅 Every year; the 2026 edition, the twentieth, ran 19–21 June

Three days of wine masterclasses, awards and open tastings, with more than 700 labels poured in the cloister of San Francesco. Castelbuono has run its festival of wine and taste since 2007.