Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 12 May
On 12 May Casalanguida, a municipality of 1,006 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas.
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20 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 12
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📅 Every year, on 12 May
On 12 May Casalanguida, a municipality of 1,006 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas.
📅 Every year, on 12 May
On 12 May Sestino, a municipality of 1,421 inhabitants in the province of Arezzo, celebrates its patron Saint Pancras, to whom the pieve is dedicated; on the last weekend of June the Sagra della Bistecca Chianina is held.
📅 Every year, on 12 May
On 12 May Labro, a municipality of 344 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron Saint Pancras; in summer the Labro Festival of music and dance is held.
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On 12 May Glorenza, a municipality of 889 inhabitants in the province of Bolzano, celebrates its patron Saint Pancras, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
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On 12 May Elva, a municipality of 94 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron Saint Pancras; the painter Hans Clemer, the Master of Elva, was active in its territory.
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On 12 May Vaglio Serra, a municipality of 284 inhabitants in the province of Asti, celebrates its patron Saint Pancras the Martyr, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
📅 Every year, on 12 May and on the Sunday after 16 July (Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Laurito, a municipality of 843 inhabitants in the province of Salerno, celebrates Saint Philip of Agira on 12 May and Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the Sunday after 16 July.
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Monasterace celebrates Saint Andrew Avellino a second time on 12 May, alongside the main observance on 10 November.
📅 Every year, on 12 May; every two years brings the Palio delle Contrade
Pisogne celebrates Saint Constantius the Martyr on 12 May. Every two years the Palio delle Contrade is held, a contest in which the town's different districts compete in sporting and other events.
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Bettona celebrates Saint Crispolto on 12 May; in 1352, after the conquest by Perugia, the town was burned and demolished and his remains carried off as prisoners along with 157 local notables.
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Africo celebrates Saint Leo of Africo on 12 May, with a second observance dedicated to Saint Salvatore on 6 August.
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Valle di Maddaloni celebrates Saint Pancras the Martyr on 12 May, in the church dedicated to him, beneath the Ponti della Valle.
📅 Every year, on 12 May; the Saint Andrew fair of 30 November draws greater participation
Gorlago celebrates its patron Saint Pancras the Martyr on 12 May, but the community has always celebrated Saint Andrew the Apostle on 30 November with greater participation, with a fair culminating in a funfair.
📅 Every year, on 12 May, with a solemn pontifical Mass in the cathedral and a procession
Albano Laziale celebrates Saint Pancras the Martyr on 12 May, with a solemn pontifical Mass in the cathedral dedicated to him, the traditional procession of the saint's statue through the town's streets and a fair; the saint is patron of both the town and the suburbicarian diocese of Albano.
📅 Every year, on 12 May; August brings Saint Firmus and Saint Roch, October brings Ripa d'Oglio
Pontevico celebrates Saint Pancras on 12 May. Annually, in August, Saint Firmus and Saint Roch are celebrated, while in October Ripa d'Oglio is celebrated.
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Carobbio degli Angeli celebrates Saint Pancras on 12 May, in the church dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on 12 May; in August the Cittaslow network's square festival
Castelnovo ne' Monti celebrates Saint Pancras on 12 May. The town, a member of Cittaslow, the international network of towns for good living, holds a square festival in August dedicated to promoting local products.
📅 Every year, on 12 May, with a procession from the town to the Sanctuary hill
Silvano d'Orba celebrates Saint Pancras every 12 May, with a procession carrying the saint's statue from the town up to the Sanctuary hill, where the feast takes place with banquets, food and good wine.
📅 Every year, on 12 May; the last weekend of August brings the Porchetta Festival, since 1964
Campli celebrates Saint Pancras on 12 May. Since 1964, every last weekend of August, the Sagra della porchetta italica has been held, the first sagra of Abruzzo and one of the first organised in Italy, conceived by Fernando Aurini to promote the town.
📅 Every year, on 12 May
Montichiari celebrates Saint Pancras on 12 May, in the parish church dedicated to him; in the hamlet of Novagli, since the 1980s, the Palio dei Novagli has been run, a donkey-and-cart race on a circular course through the hamlet's houses.
📅 Every year, on 12 May
Agira celebrates Saint Philip of Agira on 12 May; in the Royal Abbey Church dedicated to him a wooden crucifix is kept, the work of Giovan Francesco Pitorno, better known as Friar Umile da Petralia, in the town that arose on the site of ancient Agyrion.