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Events
& Festivals in Calabria
Italy
is a country of feasts and festivals and Calabria is no exception. Within
a 100 km. radius of ANYWHERE in Calabria you can attend a party everyday!
Naturally,
it's almost impossible to list all of them. So listed here are some very
popular ones. Not included are thousands more such as every holiday, a
patron saint for every town, and village parties for no reason at all...
CALABRIAN
RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL
Coming in Spring 2006
In
May, 2006, the first Calabrian Renaissance Festival will be held in
both the walled city of Badolato, along the beaches of Badolato Marina
and Torre di Ruggiero. Visitors and residents alike will be authentically
costumed and will reenact the vibrant 15th Century of Badolato as
part of the "living history" pageantry and extravaganza.
Famous musicians will hold concerts at night and master classes by
day, swordsmen, jousters and falconers from all over Europe will convene.
Spectacular entertainment includes the Joust on Horseback, the Living
Chess Game, Earthquest's Birds of Prey, the Sturdy Beggars Mud Show,
and the hilarious improvisational comedy of Ask the Village Idiot.
Torre
di Ruggiero,
Madonna delle Grazie
Badolato,
Festa della Sanitą
Two
Types of Festivals
Calabria has two principal types of festivals: religious and gastronomic.
Calabria's traditional festivals have religious origins based on art,
spirituality and plain entertainment. Given its origins of Ancient Greek
and Roman, Norman and Byzantine, French and Spanish.., the events combine
the orthodox with ethnic rituals creating a colorful, festive and dramatic
atmosphere.
Gastronomic
festivals, or sagre in Italian, are based on a certain crop or
farming at a given time of year. In January, when pigs are slaughtered,
entire towns have "La Sagra di Maiale", Pork Feast, where
every imaginable type of pork based dish is prepared in town squares
by numerous families and the entire population spends three days feasting
together. There are many others as well for those who don't eat pork!
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CALENDAR
OF FESTIVALS
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| January
20 |
Cropani,
San Sebastiano |
| April
2 |
Paola,
San Francesco |
| April
23 |
Stilo,
San Giorgio |
| Good
Friday |
Laino
Borgo, la Giudaica. Catanzaro, Naca. Nocera
Terinese, i vattienti. |
| May
1-4 |
Paola,
San Francesco |
| May
3 |
Cutro,
festa del Crocefisso |
| May
7 |
Squillace,
S. Ignazio |
| May
12 |
Monasterace,
S. Andrea Avellino |
| Pentecost |
Gimigliano,
M. di Porto |
| Last
Sunday in May |
Acquaformosa,
M. della Misericordia |
| June
12 |
Stignano
e Laino Borgo, S. Antonio |
| June
13 |
Lamezia
Terme, S. Antonio |
| June
29 |
Lamezia
Terme, SS. Pietro e Paolo |
| Last
Sunday in June |
Monasterace,
Maria SS. di Porto Salvo |
| First
Sunday in July |
Girifalco,
Madonna del Monte Covello.Maida, S. Francesco
di Paola. Monterosso, S.Maria del Soccorso. Roccella, |
| First
Sunday in August |
Aprigliano,
Madonna di Jesu. Bova Marina, Madonna del Mare,
Carlopoli, Madonna del Carmine. Condofuri, S. Domenico, Ioppolo,
S. Sisto Papa. Squillace, M. del Ponte. |
| August
5 |
Tiriolo,
Madonna della Neve |
| Second
Sunday in August |
Bagaladi,
Madonna del Carmine. Parghelia, Madonna di Porto Salvo. |
| August
10 |
San
Lorenzo, San Lorenzo. |
| August
14 |
Seminara,
Madonna Nera |
| August
15 |
Acquaro,
Madonna dell'Assunta. Bova, S. Rocco. Briatico, Maria Assunta.
Cardeto, Madonna di Mallamace. Luzzi, Madonna dell'Assunta in
Sambucina. Montalto Uffugo, Madonna della Serra. Palmi,
Processione della "Varia". San Nicola da Crissa, Madonna di Mater
Domini. Soveria Simeri, Festa della Madonna.
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| August
16 |
Gioiosa
Jonica, San Rocco. Si festeggia pure a: Acquaro, Caccuri,
Calamera, Dasą,Dinami. Filogaso, Gerocarne, Girifalco, Longobardi,
Maierato, Mileto, Montauro, Pazzano, Roccaforte del Greco,
San Sostene, Soverato. |
| Third
Sunday in August |
Platģ,
Madonna di Loreto. Marina di Gioiosa Jonica,
Madonna del Carmine |
| August
22 |
Gerace,
festa in onore dei Santi patroni
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| Fourth
Sunday in August |
Badolato,
Festa della Sanitą. |
| September
1-2 |
Polsi,
Madonna della Montagna |
| September
6-9 |
Torre
di Ruggiero, Madonna delle Grazie |
| September
8 |
Curinga,
Madonna del Soccorso Rota Greca |
| Second
Saturday in September |
Reggio
Calabria, Madonna d. Consolazione |
| September
27-28 |
Riace,
SS. Cosma e Damiano |
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October
30
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Acri,
Beato Angelo |
| November
6 |
Lungro,
S. Leonardo |
| November,
9 |
Laino
Castello, S. Teodoro |
| December
6 |
Lungro,
S. Nicola da Mira |
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