9 events with verified sources in Puglia, in calendar order.
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📅 Every year, on the third Sunday of September; the April Fair in spring
Andria celebrates its patrons on the third Sunday of September. The second feast, the April Fair, recalls 1438: the year the body of Saint Richard, lost during a siege, was found again.
📅 Every year, from 25 to 28 September
Alberobello's patrons are two physicians, Cosmas and Damian, and their feast runs four days: 25 to 28 September, with the relics kept in the basilica named after them.
📅 Every year, the Fanòve on 11 January and the patron on the 12th; the second feast on the last Sunday of April
On 11 January bonfires are lit all over town — the Fanòve, stacks of wood burning on the eve of the patron: the Madonna to whom the townspeople credited their deliverance from the plague.
📅 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 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 14 August
On 14 August Otranto remembers its patrons: some eight hundred prisoners beheaded in 1480 for refusing to renounce their faith, after the Turks stormed the town.
📅 Every year, from 24 to 26 August
Lecce's main feast lasts three days, from 24 to 26 August. The statues of the three patrons are enthroned in the cathedral and carried in procession on the 24th.
📅 Every year, from 24 to 27 August; Saint Blaise on 3 February
Four days of feasting, 24 to 27 August, and a procession on horseback: the Cavalcata, once of the Devout, with horses and riders in full caparison crossing the white town.
📅 Late August, approximate date
Europe's biggest folk music festival: Salento's pizzica dance.
