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Piazza in Festa
Piazza in Festa

Piazza in Festa

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The cards layout: the next events of a few towns, with the poster of the event when the town published one.

The cards layout: the next events of a few towns, with the poster of the event when the town published one.

Piazza in Festa collects the events of Italian towns from the notices that town halls and other public bodies are required to publish (the albo pretorio), and turns them into a readable calendar. This plugin puts that calendar on your site.

You pick the towns you care about, or a whole region with a service key. The list updates by itself every day: nobody on your side has to type events in, and nothing is copied into your database.

What you get

  • A block called Piazza in Festa, with a live preview while you edit.
  • A shortcode, [piazza-in-festa comuni="alba,barolo,la-morra" limite="5"], for classic editor, widgets and page builders.
  • Filters by town and category (or a whole region, with a service key), from village feasts to concerts, markets, exhibitions and sport.
  • Light and dark theme, your own accent colour, your own heading.
  • Nothing to maintain: no cron job, no cache to purge, no import.

Where the events come from

Every event is reconstructed from a public document: an ordinance closing a street for the procession, a resolution granting patronage to the fair, an authorisation for the concert. Small towns included, the ones no manual calendar ever reaches. Titles and descriptions are written by AI systems reading those documents, so they can contain mistakes; each event links back to the town page where the original source is shown.

Free, and what is not

The plugin is free and every option works without an account, except one: showing a whole region instead of a list of towns needs a service key. Without a key the widget covers up to twelve towns and shows a small credit line at the bottom pointing back to Piazza in Festa. A service key from Piazza in Festa (19 € a month), pasted in Settings > Piazza in Festa, removes that line, raises the limit to fifty towns and enables the whole-region option. The key is checked by the service; the plugin only passes it on.

External services

This plugin displays events served by Piazza in Festa, an external service run by the plugin author.

When a visitor opens a page that contains the block or the shortcode, their browser loads a page from https://piazzainfesta.it/embed with the parameters you configured: the towns or the region, the categories, the optional period and word in the title, how many events to show, the language, and the appearance options (theme, colour, font, heading). If you saved a service key in the settings, the key is part of that address as well.

As with any embedded content, that request reaches the service with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent. The plugin sends nothing from your server, stores nothing about your visitors, and sets no cookies of its own.