FALÒ DI SAN GIUSEPPE – UNA TRADIZIONE CHE SI RINNOVA, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, Piazza Castello – Uggiano Montefusco (TA)
Program of the evening:
6:30 p.m. Lighting of the bonfire;
7 p.m. Commencement of community dinner based on traditional dishes.
The dinner will be enlivened by curiosities related to the area by Ileana Tedesco, an expert environmental guide, and enlivened by the world music sounds of Daria Falco and Bruno Galeone. (The video below refers to the 2024 edition)
Participation is free with possible voluntary obolus. Kind reservation required at 329.3757972. For more details click on the link at the bottom of the page.
Reviving a tradition of the town in the province of Taranto, the beautiful Piazza Castello will host the bonfire and table set with typical products for a community dinner. That of St. Joseph’s bonfires is a tradition in Uggiano Montefusco that originated quite spontaneously around the mid-1960s, in the wake of the various rituals related to St. Joseph in neighboring towns.
This rite took place on March 18, on the eve of the feast of St. Joseph. It is a popular tradition not really of a religious and devotional nature (although elements to that effect are not lacking in its rituals), but essentially aimed at celebrating the arrival of spring.
The Aracne Cultural Group, in its continuous activity of recovering and enhancing aspects related to the rich cultural heritage of the area, wanted, thanks also to the sensitivity of the Municipal Administration and with the collaboration of Popularia OdV and Naturalmente a Sud, to take up and interpret this tradition in a modern key.
