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10 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 1
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📅 Every year, on 1 May and on the last Sunday of June
On 1 May and on the last Sunday of June Santa Maria del Molise, a municipality of 635 inhabitants in the province of Isernia, celebrates its patrons Maria Santissima Regina degli Apostoli and Saints Filippo and Giacomo.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Rueglio, a municipality of 773 inhabitants in the province of Turin, celebrates its patron saints Filippo and Giacomo.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Azzone, a municipality of 433 inhabitants in the province of Bergamo, celebrates its patron saints Filippo and Giacomo.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Canosa Sannita, a municipality of 1,441 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patrons Saints Philip and James, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Valmozzola, a municipality of 567 inhabitants in the province of Parma, celebrates its patron San Giuseppe.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Trivolzio, a municipality of 2,036 inhabitants in the province of Pavia, celebrates its patron San Riccardo Pampuri.
📅 Every year, in May
In May Borgo Pace, a municipality of 643 inhabitants in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, celebrates its patroness Sant'Eurosia di Jaca.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Nemi, a municipality of 1,925 inhabitants in the province of Rome, celebrates its patrons the holy apostles Philip and James with a solemn procession; the town is famous for its Strawberry Festival.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
Scanzano Jonico celebrates Mary Most Holy Annunciate on 1 May; the small chapel of the Theotokos, attached to the baronial palace built by Pedro de Toledo, holds on its portal a bas-relief of the Annunciation dating from the year 1000.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
Olmedo celebrates Our Lady of Talia on 1 May, in the rural church dedicated to her.
📅 Every year, on 1 May
On 1 May Cavallerleone, a municipality of 652 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates the patronal feast of Saint Joseph the Worker (San Giuseppe Lavoratore), with a beer festival and ballroom-dancing evenings.
📅 Every year, on 1 May; on the second Sunday of May the Trionfo del Carnevale reenacts 1559
Fossombrone celebrates Saint Aldebrando on 1 May, in the church dedicated to him. On the second Sunday of May, the «Trionfo del Carnevale», or Historic Carnival, is held, a Renaissance historical reenactment set in 1559, the day of the Cursa all'Anello ring race that concludes the Palio del Cardinale.
📅 Every year, on 1 May; for co-patron Saint Celestine, the ring joust has been held since 2002
Ferentino celebrates Saint Ambrose the martyr on 1 May; the town's co-patron is Saint Celestine, whose heart is kept at the monastery of the Poor Clare nuns, in whose honour the traditional palio, or ring joust, has been held every year since 2002.
📅 Every year, on 1 May, with the novena from 21 April
Diso celebrates the apostles Philip and James the Less on 1 May. Festivities officially begin on 21 April with the novena, and on the evening of 30 April with the first musical lighting of the renowned illuminations.
📅 Every year, from 1 to 3 May; Maria Santissima di Giubino on the fourth Sunday of September
Calatafimi-Segesta has two patrons: the Most Holy Crucifix, which in 1657 healed the sick, and Maria Santissima di Giubino, chosen by lot in 1655 to free the fields from locusts.
📅 Every year, on 1 May, with solemn pontifical mass and handover of the city keys
Castrovillari celebrates the Madonna del Castello on 1 May, with a solemn pontifical mass presided over by the bishop of Cassano allo Ionio and the handover of the city keys; her minor pontifical basilica stands on a small hill overlooking the Pollino range.
📅 Every year, from the Saturday before the first Sunday of May to the second Sunday
Eight days of feasting in May, with the statue carried in procession four times. What is remembered is not the saint's martyrdom but the day his relics reached Maratea.
