Noci

Province: Bari · Region: Puglia · Population: 19,285 · Postal code: 70015

The gnostre are Noci's secret: blind courtyards opening off the old-town lanes like open-air rooms, once shared living spaces, now stages for festivity. In November "Bacco nelle gnostre" fills them with new wine, roast chestnuts and brass bands: the moment when this town of the trulli Murgia — 19,285 residents between Gioia del Colle and Alberobello — shows its character.

The whitewashed historic centre, dense as a honeycomb, takes an hour of continuous curiosity, between narrow chiassi alleys and the fourteenth-century mother church. The area's dairies, with their farmstead cheeses, complete the stop the proper Apulian way: at the table.

🎉 Festivals and feasts in Noci 1

Patron saint festival In 198 days

Santa Maria della Croce, protector of Noci, alongside Saint Roch

📅 Every year, from 30 April to 4 May; co-patron Saint Roch is celebrated on 16 August and the first Sunday of September

Noci celebrates Santa Maria della Croce, its own protector, from 30 April to 4 May; the town's co-patron is Saint Roch, with a liturgical feast on 16 August and a civic patronal feast on the first Sunday of September. Among the town's patrons is also Our Lady of Sorrows.

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