Patron saint festival In 28 days
Saint Martin and the lard festival
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Arnad celebrates Saint Martin; on the last weekend of August, instead, comes the Féhta dou lar, the Lard d'Arnad festival.
At the entrance to the hamlet of Machaby lies a smoothed stone the locals call the women's slide, or guiata: the fertility stone, tied to Celtic magic rituals, with rock inscriptions around it. A little higher, at the sanctuary of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, the feast of the Madonna of the Snows is still kept on 5 August.
The comune climbs from the valley floor through hillside vineyards up to the col de La Cou, and counts two castles, the upper one and the Vallaise, plus the fortified houses of La Costa and Ville. The bridge of Echallod, on the Via Francigena coming from Verrès, has been crossable only on foot since the flood of 2000. Between Perloz and Arnad's 1,294 residents run the peony paths, protecting a species rare in the valley.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.