Events & Festivals in Palmanova

Patron saint festival

Saint Justina, patron celebrated on the day of the star-shaped city's founding

📅 Every year, on 7 October, together with the anniversary of the fortress's founding

Palmanova celebrates Saint Justina of Padua on 7 October, the same day on which, in 1593, the Venetians laid the first stone of the star-shaped fortress built to defend the border from the Habsburgs.

Patron saint festival

Feast of Saint Justina

📅 Every year, on 7 October

On 7 October Palmanova celebrates its patron Saint Justina of Padua; the same day marks the anniversary of the founding of the Fortress, the star-shaped fortified town on which Palmanova stands.