Annual Italy Events

Saint Bernardino's Day. This is the little southern town from which Agostino Coppola, the grandfather of the famous American director Francis Ford Coppola, emigrated from years ago. Coppola says that in his film The Godfather III, he recreated this Berlanda festival from the stories that his father Carmine had told him a hundred times. The director still has relatives here including his Aunt Maria who usually cooks up the traditional meals of the area like pasta with stringbeans and cheese-and-parsley doughnuts. There's a big lottery between the local residents to decide who will carry the statue so get there early enough to throw your name in the hat!