🔔 The Italian Almanac

March 18

Stories and curiosities for March 18, 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… 2

2 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on March 18

Patron saint festival In 142 days 📍 Mantua

Feast of Saint Anselm

📅 Every year, on 18 March

On 18 March Mantua celebrates Saint Anselm, its patron: a late-winter date, before the city enters the season of its lakes.

Patron saint festival In 142 days 📍 Savona

Our Lady of Mercy, patron who appeared to Antonio Botta in 1536

📅 Every year, on 18 March, with great bonfires lit the night before in the bed of the Letimbro stream

Savona celebrates Our Lady of Mercy on 18 March, with great bonfires lit in the bed of the Letimbro stream; her Baroque sanctuary, built after the Madonna's apparition to Antonio Botta in 1536, holds an altar by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.