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* Every third Sunday of May, the town commemorates the help it received from Saint Roch during its fight against the Spanish army in 1654.

The parade, as much a military march as a religious procession, was banned in the 18th century, but was reinstated in 1866 after Saint Roch delivered the city again, this time from an epidemic of cholera.

The tradition has continued until today, interrupted only by the two world wars.