Patron saint festival In 300 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Rocca Santa Maria, a municipality of 569 inhabitants in the province of Teramo, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
The municipality is scattered in hamlets far from one another, and the name comes from a tower that no longer exists. From here came Marco Sciarra, the bandit who in the late sixteenth century ruled the Monti della Laga: when his men stopped Torquato Tasso's party and the poet gave his name, Sciarra had the loot returned and let them go. In 1670 an edict against banditry brought reprisals from the brigands, who burned the hamlets.
On 25 September 1943, at Bosco Martese, scattered soldiers, anti-fascists from Teramo and escaped English and Slav prisoners faced a German unit and drove it back: it is regarded as the first open-field battle of the Italian Resistance. The reprisal came at once, and among the dead was Mario Capuani, who had organised the rising in his own house.
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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.