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Birth Anniversary: Ignazio Gerusalemme — June 3, 1707

03 June 2027

Lecce

Born at Lecce in southern Italy on 3 June 1707. After serving as a violinist in Naples and theatrical director at the Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro in Cadiz, he accepted an invitation in 1742 to move to New Spain, where he was appointed maestro de capilla of Mexico City Cathedral in 1749.

A note on this date. The exact day of death in Mexico City is unrecorded in municipal archives (1769); we celebrate his verified birth anniversary on 3 June. We publish it with the warning rather than leave the page out, and if you can point us to a register or an archive that carries it we will confirm or correct it.

Dates verified on Craig H. Russell, From Serra to Sancho: Music and Pageantry in California Culture, Oxford University Press, 2009; Grove Music Online, entry "Jerúsalem, Ignacio" (https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.14275).

Travel tips from CHO

Go on the first Sunday of the month

State museums, archaeological parks and monuments across Italy open free of charge on the first Sunday of every month. It covers state-run sites only — civic and private museums set their own prices — and there is nothing to claim: you simply walk in.

The ministry’s free days →

In September, the doors that are usually shut open

For one long weekend every September, some fifty European countries run the European Heritage Days together: palaces, workshops, archives and private houses that are closed the rest of the year let visitors in, almost always for nothing. Italy sets its own dates, and they are published a few weeks ahead.

Dates, country by country →

Arrive already connected

Maps, opening hours and tickets all need data, and roaming outside your own network still costs more than the ticket. A travel eSIM for Italy installs on your phone before you leave home and works the moment you land — no queue at the airport, no physical card to swap.

Data plans for Italy →Affiliate link — what this means

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