Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Opi, a municipality of 428 inhabitants in the province of L'Aquila, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
The name may come from oppidum, the fortified town, and the first times it is read are around 1017, when the monastery of Sant'Elia, at the foot of Monte Marsicano, passed to Montecassino. The village sits on a spur among the mountains, and is one of the rainiest and coldest places in Abruzzo.
In the night between 23 and 24 July 1654 an earthquake brought down almost all the houses and killed many people: the village took decades to get back to what it had been. Below the houses there is a quarter called Casette asismiche, the aseismic cottages, built after the Marsica earthquake of 1915. Opi was joined to Pescasseroli at the beginning of the nineteenth century and took back its municipality in 1854; val Fondillo and the Camosciara, which lie in its territory, are the first nucleus of the Abruzzo national park.
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Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.