Piazza Duomo, Nola, Italy - 1994 - 8 Gigli towers line Nola's town square following Festa dei Gigli Sunday

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Welcome to the web site which celebrates
the DANCE OF THE GIGLIO feast Tradition in America & Italy
site sponsored by Tony De Nonno Productions Inc.

                          Williamsburg, Brooklyn - 1997
What is The Dance of the Giglio?
Imagine 125 men carrying a Five-Ton, Five-Story, Hand-Sculptured Tower and a 12- piece Brass Band on their shoulders dancing it through their neighborhood in tempo to joyous Italian folk songs 
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Why is a Giglio danced?  
For over 300 years in Italy, and the past century in communities throughout the greater New York area,  this glorious ritual known as  'The Dance of the Giglio' has been celebrated each Summer with unbridled passion and devotion. This annual 65 to 85 foot-high moving monument to faith, folk-art and family honors a Roman Catholic Saint, San Paolino di Nola and his heroic act of sacrifice & valor in the ancient Italian city of Nola in the year 409 AD. 
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Where & When is the Giglio danced? 
In America, the Giglio is danced yearly at the following Italian-American Feast celebrations within the greater New York metropolitan area -- at the Feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel and San Paolino in Williamsburg, Brooklyn;  at Our Lady of Mt Carmel in East Harlem, Manhattan; and at the Festa del Giglio Feast at the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, Long Island, New York.  In Nola, Italy where the tradition began in 409 AD eight Monumental Gigli spires are danced annually on the Sunday following June 22, San Paolino day.  This looming, moving and monumental dancing ritual to faith, folkart and family is also celebrated in the Italian cities of Brusciano and Barra, Italy. 
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