{"id":7809,"date":"2025-04-23T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cortonaweb.net\/?post_type=event&p=7809"},"modified":"2025-04-23T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:49:47","slug":"offer-of-candles-to-st-margherita-2025","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.cortonaweb.net\/en\/event\/offer-of-candles-to-st-margherita-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Offer of candles to St. Margherita"},"content":{"rendered":"
Offer of candles to St. Margherita<\/strong><\/em> The day before the Feast day of St. Margherita, patron saint of Cortona, each quarter parades along the streets and all gather on Piazza della Repubblica<\/strong>, where people can watch stunning performances of players and flagflyers and the blessing of candles to be offered to St. Margherita. A long costume parade makes for the Basilica of St. Margherita<\/strong> to receive the blessing to the crossbow shooters who will take part in the tournament.<\/p>\n
\nBlessing to Crossbow shooters and the golden arrow (Verretta d\u2019oro)<\/em>
\nPerformance of flagflyers and music players belonging to the \u201cGruppo Storico Citt\u00e0 di Cortona<\/em><\/p>\n