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10 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 15
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📅 Every year, from the third Saturday to the fourth Sunday of May
From the third Saturday to the fourth Sunday of May Pignola celebrates Our Lady of the Angels: the image climbs from the sanctuary in the plain to the Chiesa Madre on the hill, a route kept for centuries.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Soriano nel Cimino celebrates the co-patron Saint Eutizio on 15 May; the patron, Saint Nicholas, is celebrated on 6 December.
📅 Every year, on 15 May; since 2005 the Apritiborgo festival livens up the borgo with theatre and street arts
Campiglia Marittima celebrates Saint Florentius of Populonia on 15 May. The town's most distinctive event is Apritiborgo, a theatre and street arts festival born in 2005 through collaboration with the Fine Arts Academy of Florence, livening up the borgo's streets every year.
📅 Every year, on 15 May, with a feast and procession
Villaputzu celebrates Saint George the Martyr on 15 May, with a feast and procession. August brings the launeddas festival and the feast of the Madonna del mare.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Galeata celebrates Saint Hellerus on 15 May, in the abbey that bears his name.
📅 Every year, on 15 May, the anniversary of Saint Hilary's death
Lugo celebrates Saint Hilary on 15 May, the anniversary of his death, a date recognised by the town's statutes as early as 1493; the town's co-patron is Saint Francis of Paola.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Giarre celebrates Saint Isidore the Farmer on 15 May, also the patron of Madrid; the neoclassical cathedral dedicated to him was built starting in 1794 and opened for worship in 1818.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Schiavon celebrates Saint Isidore on 15 May.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Torrecuso celebrates Saint Liberatore on 15 May, in the hermitage dedicated to him.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Magliano Sabina celebrates Saint Liberatus, bishop and martyr, on 15 May.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Olbia celebrates Saint Simplicius on 15 May; the martyr, pierced by a lance under Diocletian, was buried in the Roman necropolis where in 1904 a treasure of 871 gold coins was discovered, and on which his Romanesque-Pisan basilica now stands.
📅 Every year, on 15 May, in the bell tower built by all of Albanella in 1955
Albanella celebrates Saint Sophia on 15 May, in the church dedicated to her, whose imposing red-brick bell tower was built with financial contributions from all Albanella's residents and inaugurated on 14 May 1955, the eve of the feast.
📅 Every year, the Ceri on 15 May, Saint Ubaldo on the 16th
On 15 May three wooden pillars crowned with statues of saints are carried at a run through Gubbio. It has happened every year since the twelfth century, and since 1973 those three are the emblem of Umbria.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Tissi celebrates Saint Victoria on 15 May, in the church dedicated to her.
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Lesina celebrates Saints Primianus and Firmianus, martyrs, on 15 May. Saint Primianus, a victim of the great persecution under Diocletian in the 3rd century, is also patron of Lesina and co-patron of Larino.
