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Saint Alexander's
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Pro-loco "Sant’Alessandro" is a
cultural association which was born at Ischia in 1981.
Every year on August 26th, in occasion of St Alex
bishop’s festivity, Pro-loco Sant’Alessandro"
organizes a historical customs show with two hundred
figurants, who leave from the Aragonese Castle and go
through the main roads of Ischia. The Greek
colonizers, who at Ischia founded “Pithecusa” in the 8th
century BC, open the procession. There are also the
Renaissance
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Court with Victoria Colonna and
Ferrante D'Avalos, king Carl III and king Ferdinand IV of Bourbon, Gioacchino Murat and king
Ferdinand II.
The procession ends with the typical customs of
several ages and social ranks of the island.
Figurants represent traditional activities of the
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of country houses and sea villages.
There are peasants given to the production of wine;
women who carry the most important wines; sailors who
carry fishes in the traditional hampers; children with
hampers of fruit and vegetables...
Furthermore Pro-loco "S.Alessandro" has promoted and
organized twinships with Italian and foreign Countries
cultural associations such as: "Mammuttones" from
Nuoro, "Giullari" from Minturno, "Folk Groups" from
Valle di Non and Montone, "Grazielle " from Procida,
“Sbandieratori" from Cava dei Tirreni, “Arte e Costumi
Marinesi" from Marino, "Gruppo" from Itaca.
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