Patron saint festival In 270 days
Feast of San Leucio
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of July
On the second Sunday of July Pietracamela, a municipality of 304 inhabitants in the province of Teramo, celebrates its patron San Leucio.
Pietracamela clings to the Teramo side of the Gran Sasso, beneath a boulder that towers over the houses. From that rock comes the first half of the name; over the second half scholars have always argued. Some trace it to the Cimmerians and some to the Italic people of the Camerti, some to the stone «in cacumine», that is at the summit; and then there is the finest theory, that the old name Pietra Cimmeria, which meant a dark and cavernous place, became Pietra Camela because that boulder, seen from below, has the humped shape of a camel.
The village is built entirely of local stone, put up between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with stepped alleys and lintels carved with arms and inscriptions, and it is the only comune in the province of Teramo lying wholly inside the Gran Sasso national park. In 1991 the Corno Grande reserve was established here, two thousand hectares taking in the highest summit of the Apennines and the Calderone glacier: its purpose was to bring back the Abruzzo chamois, which had vanished from these mountains and which was reintroduced in 1992. Above the village open the Prati di Tivo, with their ski resort.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.