Patron saint festival In 299 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Abbateggio, a municipality of 441 inhabitants in the province of Pescara, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
In 986 a nobleman of Penne, Tresidio di Ota, had the castle built and gave it to abbot Adam of San Clemente a Casauria: the same abbot who the year before had put together Pietranico, not far away. The village's name, some say, is a contraction of Abbate-Giovanni, abbot John.
Outside the centre stands the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Elcina: tradition tells of two dumb shepherd boys who saw the Virgin on a holm oak and got their speech back; the trunk of the tree is kept in the church. Up on the plateau, among the stones, there remain the tholos huts of a Neolithic village, which shepherds still used in the Middle Ages on their way down to Puglia. In 1929 the municipality was abolished and put inside San Valentino: it became a municipality again in 1947.
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Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 21 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. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 22 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 22 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Pinacoteca Malaspina 📍 Pavia · 22 km Civic art gallery of Pavia in the Visconti Castle: Bellini, Correggio, Antonello and the Morone bequest. Chiesa di San Lanfranco 📍 Pavia · 24 km Romanesque Vallombrosan basilica in Pavia, with Amadeo's tomb of San Lanfranco and a fresco of Becket.