people who enjoy the fresh air in the pine woods, the celebration in honour of the saint has come to inaugurate the summer season. Although its roots go back to time immemorial, the event was instituted in 1959, coinciding with the construction of the church, to counterbalance the secular celebration of May Day on the same day in the Piazza XX Settembre in Gioia del Colle. August — Feast of the Pupo Fritto: a festival celebrating the typical Apulian fried pancake, sponsored in recent years by the local council and which has become an event not to be missed. Frazioni of the Metropolitan City of Bari Gioia del Colle