Patron saint festival In 39 days
Feast of Saint Clement
📅 Every year, on 23 November
On 23 November Fossa celebrates its patron Saint Clement; the town preserves the Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Cryptas, renowned for its thirteenth-century frescoes.
The village takes its name from the karst hollow it was born in. Below it lay the Roman city of Aveia, and the medieval village was largely built out of its stones: they can still be seen in the walls of the houses. Down on the plain, along the Aterno, the Vestini had their cemetery from the ninth century before Christ.
Fossa took part in the founding of L'Aquila, and paid dearly for its loyalty to the Angevins: in 1423 Braccio da Montone besieged and destroyed the castle, which was never raised again. On the sixth of April 2009 the earthquake killed five people here, and the next day the village was the epicentre of the strongest aftershock. Just outside the houses stands Santa Maria ad Cryptas, with frescoes of the thirteenth century.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.