Patron saint festival In 214 days
Feast of Saint Ubaldus
📅 Every year, on 16 May
On 16 May Taranta Peligna, a municipality of 399 inhabitants in the province of Chieti, celebrates its patron Saint Ubaldus.
On 26 October 1943 the German command had the order to leave posted on the walls: the village lay on the Gustav Line and the houses were to be blown up. People took refuge in the Cavallone caves, with winter coming on, or fled to Palena; meanwhile Taranta burned, the church of San Biagio was blown up and the bridge over the Aventino brought down. They came back on 13 June 1944, and found rubble.
The village was called Tarantola until 1881, and on the coat of arms there is still a spider. Woollen cloth was woven here that was itself called taranta, and the craft has not been lost. The Madonna della Valle, the patron, is said to have appeared to shepherds on the trunk of an oak, and from that trunk they carved her statue.
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chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.