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📅 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.
📅 Every year, on 8 May
On 8 May Bari celebrates Saint Nicholas. His relics reached the city on 9 May 1087, carried by sixty-two Bari sailors who had taken them from Myra, in Lycia.
📅 Every year, on 8 May and the first Sunday of October
On 8 May and the first Sunday of October tens of thousands of pilgrims reach the sanctuary for the Supplication, recited at the same moment by devotees of the Rosary wherever they are.
📅 Every year, on 9 May; Saint George on 23 April
On 9 May the Madonna leaves the cathedral enthroned and travels seven kilometres to her sanctuary. Vieste is entrusted to her patronage together with Saint George's.
📅 Every year, on 13 May
On 13 May Agnone celebrates Saint Cristanziano, its patron, in a town of upper Molise that knows more about bells than anywhere else.
📅 Every year, on 14 May
On 14 May Capri celebrates Saint Constantius, its patron, in the church that carries his name — and it does so before the island enters the summer.
📅 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 21 May
On 21 May Verona celebrates Saint Zeno, the city's patron, in the Romanesque basilica that bears his name away from the centre.
📅 Every year, one weekend in mid-May
Two days in mid-May built around the local cannolo, filled with sheep's-milk ricotta from village dairies: tastings, cooking shows and pastry makers from across Sicily along Viale 8 Marzo.
📅 Every year on 10 May
Every 10 May Gangi honours its patron saint: solemn mass with the town authorities, the mayor's floral tribute, and a procession that calls at the town's churches.
📅 Every year on the third Sunday of May
Sambuca's biggest night of the year: on the third Sunday of May, a statue carved by Antonello Gagini is carried through the old town until nearly dawn, greeted with folk chants at eleven decorated stops.
📅 Every May, during the patron saint celebrations
Sambuca's pastry shops set up tasting stalls in Piazza della Vittoria for the town's signature sweet — milk cream, chocolate and candied fruit under a smooth glaze, in a shape that explains the name at first glance.
On 15 May, three teams race uphill carrying four-hundred-kilo wooden "candles" on their shoulders.
📍 Gubbio →The two historic factions compete with processions and songs, returning the town to the Middle Ages.
📍 Assisi →On the second Sunday, tons of fish fried in a record-breaking giant pan (since 1952).
📍 Camogli →On the third Sunday, Via Nicolaci is carpeted with designs made of petals.
📍 Noto →The "marriage of the sea": the water procession renews the Serenissima's thousand-year rite.
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