Events
- Festival of San Pancrazio: May 12 is remembered with a solemn procession through the city streets and a fair.
- Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: Pope Pius V, to celebrate the Christian victory in the Battle of Lepanto (1571), the Papal States established as a national holiday the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which still continues to be solemnized at Albano on October 7 of each year.
- Festa della Madonna della Rotonda, the first Sunday in August the Albanense community solemnize the feast of Santa Maria della Rotonda recalling the rescue of the city by the cholera epidemic of 1867.
- Feast of St. Francis of Assisi: traditional Albanense feast, was once exhibition of animals kept at the "Boar Field ", near the present railway station.
- Feast of Our Lady of Caramel: historic celebration presumably introduced by the Carmelite Fathers who settled in the 17th century at the Church of Santa Maria della Stella.
- Arrival of Minenti: the arrival of the populace of Trastevere, whose pilgrimage ends in Albano at the Shrine of Our Lady of Divine Love the first Monday after Pentecost, dressed in traditional costumes.
- White night: the last Sunday in September, the City of Albano keeps shops open at night and animate the historic center with shows and concerts. The first edition of Notte Bianca Albano was held in 2006.
- Antique market: the second Sunday of each month,.
- Franz Liszt Music festival: between October and November at Palazzo Savelli.
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