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Festa del Soccorso (Maria SS. del Soccorso)
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Each year, the city of San Severo honors its patroness, the Madonna del Soccorso, with great processions. As the sacred procession passes, street firework batteries are set off in the town's distinctive way, in a celebration that joins fervent devotion to a thunderous Puglian display of fireworks.
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Festa del Soccorso (Maria SS. del Soccorso)
San Severo, Italy
Each year, the city of San Severo honors its patroness, the Madonna del Soccorso, with great processions. As the sacred procession passes, street firework batteries are set off in the town's distinctive way, in a celebration that joins fervent devotion to a thunderous Puglian display of fireworks.
Patronal feast of San Severo (Foggia, Puglia) in honor of Maria SS. del Soccorso, featuring major city processions and the distinctive San Severo tradition of batterie pirotecniche (street firework batteries) ignited as the sacred corteo passes. The feast is documented by Italy’s Istituto Centrale per il Patrimonio Immateriale as instituted in 1858 and characterized by batteries during the Sunday procession; the Comune describes the Sunday procession, Mon...
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Patronal feast of San Severo (Foggia, Puglia) in honor of Maria SS. del Soccorso, featuring major city processions and the distinctive San Severo tradition of batterie pirotecniche (street firework batteries) ignited as the sacred corteo passes. The feast is documented by Italy’s Istituto Centrale per il Patrimonio Immateriale as instituted in 1858 and characterized by batteries during the Sunday procession; the Comune descri...
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San Severo
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