Patron saint festival In 275 days
The Madonna del Carmine, patroness of a town with Western Europe's oldest copper mine
📅 Every year, on 16 July
Castiglione Chiavarese celebrates the Madonna del Carmine on 16 July; on Monte Loreto, where the sanctuary of Our Lady of the same name also stands, lies the oldest copper archaeo-mining site in Western Europe, worked since the early 4th millennium BC.
