Patron saint festival In 206 days
Feast of Saint Generosus
📅 Every year, on 8 May
On 8 May Ortona dei Marsi, a municipality of 592 inhabitants in the province of L'Aquila, holds the patronal feast in honour of Saint Generosus.
Between the hamlets of Cesoli and Rivoli stood Milonia, a fortified town of the Marsi that the Romans razed during the Third Samnite War. From there came the gens Poppedia and Quintus Poppaedius Silo, who led the Marsi against Rome in the Social War; in 1814, on the bank of the Giovenco, the gravestone of a Poppedia Secunda came to light.
The diploma of Alife of 1273 divided the Abruzzo in two, and the boundary ran right across the territory of Ortona, which remained in the Ultra until 1807. In 1756 the village asked the pope for leave to take relics from the catacombs of San Sebastiano in Rome, and three years later the remains of the martyr Generoso arrived.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Ortona dei Marsi 1
No events match these filters.
Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Ortona dei Marsi
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Ortona dei Marsi, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.