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Naples Events and Naples Festivals (Naples, Italy)



Leading magazines for numerous Naples festivals and events are readily available and there are popular Naples event guides published every week. Full of up-to-date listings of events and festivals throughout Italy, with a focus on Naples, they are aimed specifically at tourists and visitors to Naples. These magazines provide you with a huge choice of things to see and do in Naples, Italy.

Naples National Public Holidays

• 1st January - New Year's Day
• 6th January - Epiphany
• Early April - Easter Monday
• 25th April - Liberation Day and St. Mark's Feast Day
• 1st May - Labour Day
• 29th June - Local Feast Day
• 15th August - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 1st November - All Saints Day
• 8th December - Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• 24th December - Christmas Eve
• 25th December - Christmas Day
• 26th December - Boxing Day / St. Stephen's Day

Naples Events in January - Naples

• New Year's Day - festivities throughout the city
• Magi's Festival - 6th January, re-enactment of the Magi's visit to Bethlehem, Lizzano (Tàranto)
• Festa d'o'Cippo Sant'Antonio - 17th January, procession for the protection of animals, with bonfires and games at Novoli, Lecce
• Chamber Music - January to April, at the Teatro delle Palme in Naples
• Operas - January to mid-July, at the San Carlo in Naples

Naples Events in February - Naples

• Carnival - Italy's longest carnival, beginning on the 16th December in Putignano (Bari), the Carnevale Duomo at Manfredonia lasts four weeks

Naples Events in April - Naples

• Holy Week Celebrations - with a strong Spanish flavour, these celebrations feature many processions with floats, with the most impressive at Tàranto. On Good Friday there is a torchlit procession at Nemoli, Potenza and an omelette feast at Easter
• Orthodox Easter Albanian Celebrations - held at Lungro, Calabria

Naples Events in May - Naples

• International Music Festival - late May, this large music festival in held in the city
• Illustration Show - 3rd week in May, interesting comic strip and illustration show in Naples
• Parade of the Turks - 28th to 29th of May, this parade is held at San Gerardo in Potenza
• Weekend Events - throughout May there are many events that are held during the weekends

Naples Events in June - Naples

• La Scamaciata - 2nd June, costume parade and general festivities in Fasano, Brindisi
• Music Festival - early June to mid-July, this popular music festival is held in Ravello
• Sant'Andrea - 27th June, with fireworks, costumes and spectacular processions in nearby Amalfi

Naples Events in July - Naples

• Madonna della Bruna - 2nd July, religious procession at Matera with an enormous float that gets torn to pieces at the end of the day
• Madonna del Carmine - 16th July, in Piazza del Carmine, culminating in a fireworks display
• Feast of St. Anne - 26th July, a torchlit procession in Ischia, with hundreds of boats, transformed into floats to honour the island's patron saint
• Feast of St. Pantaleone - 27th July, held at Ravello, this is one of the most extravagant firework displays in the region

Naples Events in August - Naples

• Feast of San Nicola Pellegrino - 6th to 8th August, this waterfront festival is held at Trani in Bari
• Madonna della Madia - 14th to 16th August, this water festival celebrates the icon of the Madonna, at Monopoli in Bari
• Wheat Festival (Foglianise) - 15th August, the festival includes a procession of tractors and a pageant in the evening, held at Benevento
• Sea Procession - 22nd August, the event includes fireworks at Porto Cesareo in Lecce

Naples Events in September - Naples

• Neapolitan Song Contest - beginning of September, this contest at Piedigrotta in Naples includes fireworks
• Feast of San Gennaro - 19th September, celebration of the saint in Naples
• Handicrafts Show - late-September, held at Fóggia

Naples Events in November - Naples

• Feast of San Trifone - 10th November, cavalcade of children dressed as angels riding horses, at Adelfia in Bari

Naples Events in December - Naples

• Christmas Fairs - throughout December, Christmas fairs sell decorations and festive gifts throughout the region and thousands of elaborate nativity scenes are erected around Naples
• Immaculate Conception Celebrations - 8th December, sausage and polenta festival at San Bartolomeo in Galdo
• Presepi - 24th December, midnight mass and tableaux at Grottaglie in Tàranto and Nardò in Lecce
• New Year's Eve - December 31st, masses are celebrated in churches and traditionally, broken crockery is tossed from balconies. There are also many parties and general celebrations

Nightlife in Naples - Naples, Italy

For concerts, shows and other cultural events, Naples always has plenty. The best information on programmes and times can be found in the local newspapers, in particular Il Mattino and also in the free month guide Qui Napoli. The Neapolis Rock Festival attracts many top international acts and is held in midsummer. Located to the west of Naples, near to the beach at Arenile di Bagnoli, this lively event is very popular.

 
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