🔔 The Italian Almanac

May 15

Stories and curiosities for May 15, 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… 8

8 towns with a guide celebrate their patron saint on May 15

Patron saint festival In 247 days 📍 Gubbio

Saint Ubaldo and the Race of the Candles

📅 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.