Friday, May 13, 2005
The Snake Festival at Cocullo
One of the stranger festivals of Italy is the celebration at Cocullo in honour of their patron St Dominic, Abbot. The saint was said to have made all the local snakes harmless and so every year on the 1st Thursday of May his statue is carried in procession though the village draped in snakes.
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