The patron of Vinci is Saint Andrew the apostle, celebrated on 30 November. Linked to the day is the old feast of Sant'Andrea, recovered from local tradition with a historical procession that goes from the church of the Santissima Annunziata across the old town to the church of Santa Croce.
The procession re-enacts the ancient rites of the feast, and the figures of Leonardo as a child and as a man appear in it too. Its most distinctive element is the Vinnovo, the new wine carried in procession by pages, preceded by the Governors of the Wine Excise of Vinci; then come the Priors of the Company of the Holy Spirit with a candle.
