Patron saint festival In 231 days
Feast of Saint Erasmus
📅 Every year, on 2 June
On 2 June Civitella Messer Raimondo, a municipality of 861 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Erasmus.
Until 1863 the village was called simply Civitella, like a good many others; then it took the name of the man who had held the castle in the first half of the fifteenth century, Raimondo d'Annecchino, and with it the «messere» by which he was addressed. The arms show an uprooted oak with the old name written on a band across the trunk, and two letters, S and M, that the sources do not explain.
Below the village people have followed one another without a break: rock paintings in the cave of La Pineta, prehistoric tombs with bronze grave goods, and a Roman bath house with mosaics on the hill they call Il Piano. Today people come down to the Aventino to go rafting, which is the last thing anyone expects here.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Civitella Messer Raimondo 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Civitella Messer Raimondo
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Civitella Messer Raimondo, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.