January 2020
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- Atri (TE): "Lu Sant'Antonio", traditional festival
- Pettorano sul Gizio (AQ): "Serenata di capodanno" (New year's Serenade) with music and songs along the streets
- Canistro (AQ): Representation of the Nativity through the village streets
- Colonnella (TE): Living crib
- Sant'Eufemia a Maiella (CH): Living Crib
- Villa Celiera (PE): Living Crib
- Anversa degli Abruzzi (AQ): Feast of S. Marcello, with the traditional bonfires
- Fara Filiorum Petri (CH): Traditional feast of Sant'Antonio with burning of "farchie" (enormous, specially made bundles of hay and canes) in the square, in memory of a miracle throgh which french troops were rejected
- Gessopalena (CH): Feast of Sant'Antonio, with comic interludes about the Saint's temptations in the desert
- Sant'Antonio Abate is celebrated throughout Abruzzo, with bonfires and procession, and especially in
Abbateggio(PE), Alfedena (AQ), Caramanico Terme (PE), Celano (AQ), Cermignano (TE), Civitaquana (PE), Civitella Roveto (AQ), Collelongo (AQ), Lama dei Peligni (CH), Moscufo (PE), Ofena (AQ), Opi (AQ), Ortona dei Marsi (AQ), Ovindoli (AQ), Pescocostanzo (AQ), Pizzoli (AQ), Rivisondoli (AQ), San Benedetto dei Marsi (AQ), San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore (PE), Scanno (AQ), Scontrone (AQ), Villa Santa Maria (CH), Villavallelonga (AQ)
- Arsita (TE): Burlesque performance of the saint's temptations in the desert
- Ateleta (AQ): Sausage festival
- Cerchio (AQ): Sagra dei "granati e della porchetta"
- Chieti (CH): Satirical performance of the temptations of Saint Antonio
To the celebration of Sant'Antonio, special features are added in the following places:
- Ortona (CH): Feast of San Sebastiano
- San Vincenzo Valle Roveto (AQ): Feast of Santa Restituta
- Quadri (CH): Feast of San Sebastiano