Get into the holiday spirit when you visit these Italian villages where Christmas is celebrated with special events.

Candelo (Piedmont)

Located about 60 kilometers northeast of Turin, Candelo is a medieval village known for its ‘Ricetto’, a fortified storehouse made of a group of houses and streets surrounded by walls, which the local population used as an agricultural warehouse and where they took shelter in case of danger. On the small square in front of the Ricetto entrance is the Palazzo del Principe, a three-story fort-house with a fortified tower, built at the end of the 15th century.