🔔 The Italian Almanac

March 14

Stories and curiosities for March 14, 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… 1

1 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on March 14

Other saints of the day 1

Patron saint festival In 138 days 📍 Silvi

Saint Leo of Rome, patron of the town of the Belvedere di Silvi

📅 Every year, on 14 March; on the last Sunday of May, Silvi Paese builds a great cylinder of canes

Silvi celebrates Saint Leo of Rome on 14 March; on the last Sunday of May, in the hamlet of Silvi Paese, also called «Belvedere di Silvi», a large cylinder of bound canes, up to ten metres tall, is put together.