Madonna della Neve Festival
Edition 2025 Finished Free Variety Sacred music Brass band

Madonna della Neve Festival

05 Aug 2025
San Donato di Lecce — Lecce (075)

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Edition 2025 — Madonna della Neve

The 2025 edition of the Madonna della Neve Festival took place in Galugnano, in the Pisanei district, around August 5th. The community gathered for religious celebrations and the festival in the square, with illuminations lighting up the village, brass band concerts, popular music, and evening entertainment. The festivities concluded, as per Salento tradition, with a fireworks display that attracted residents and visitors from neighboring towns.

The 2025 festival in the Pisanei district

In 2025, the Madonna della Neve Festival returned to Galugnano, a hamlet of San Donato di Lecce, with its usual blend of the sacred and the profane in the setting of the small medieval church of the Pisanei district.

Popular devotion found its place in the religious celebrations and the procession of the Virgin's image, while in the evening the village came alive with illuminations, brass band concerts, popular music, and entertainment shows organized by the Festival Committee. A grand finale with fireworks, the highlight of the village's summer festivities.

Programme

Traditional structure of the festival: religious celebrations and procession; in the evening, illuminations, brass band concert, popular music, and entertainment in the square; closing with a fireworks display.

Highlights

Procession of the Madonna della Neve, brass band concert, and final fireworks display.

Prices

Free admission.

Where does it take place — Madonna della Neve

Chiesa della Madonna della Neve (Galugnano)

Contrada Pisanei, 73010 San Donato di Lecce

Madonna della Neve in brief

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History of Madonna della Neve

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