Patron saint festival In 51 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Molina Aterno celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The name comes from the mills, which here were many; the Aterno was added on 30 June 1889, because of the river. The village already appears in 787, in a chronicle of the abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno, on which it depended.
The earthquake of 1703 brought the castle down, and with those stones they enlarged the houses: the village, though, still has its old shape, all climbing up to the top. What is left of the castle is the palace the Piccolomini made for themselves in the fifteenth century, with its arcaded courtyard; above the door are the arms of the Pietropaoli, who enlarged it in the seventeenth. On the doorways of the church of the Colle, of 1517, is the monogram of Jesus that Saint Bernardine used to preach.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.