Patron saint festival In 191 days
Feast of Saint George
📅 Every year, on 23 April
On 23 April Pereto celebrates its patron Saint George; since 1970, on 26 December, the living nativity scene is staged.
For a century this village of a few hundred souls gave the diocese of the Marsi its bishops: five Maccafani one after another, one of whom was also the first bishop of Lanciano and another governor of Todi and Cesena; and a man of Pereto, Antonio, was minister general of the Franciscans. Their palace is still in the village.
Up on the mountain, at the boundary with Rocca di Botte, stands the sanctuary of the Madonna dei Bisognosi, which tradition says was built in 608. Inside there are a Virgin carved in olive wood that came from Seville, the processional crucifix that pope Boniface IV is said to have left in thanks for his recovery, and frescoes of the late fifteenth century with heaven and hell. On the comune's arms there is a pear tree: thirteen leaves and seven pears.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.