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.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.