Patron saint festival In 244 days
Feast of Saint Vitus the Martyr
📅 Every year, on 15 June
On 15 June Banzi, a municipality of 1,406 inhabitants in the province of Potenza, celebrates its patron Saint Vitus the Martyr.
In 1969 the archaeologist Mario Torelli excavated at Banzi a templum auguraculum in terris: not a building, but an area traced on the ground from which the augurs read the sky. It is the only one of its kind known.
From here too comes the Tabula Bantina, an engraved bronze sheet that is the longest and most complex text in the Oscan language among those written in Latin characters; today it is in the Naples museum. In 1089 pope Urban II consecrated the church of the Benedictine abbey, and on that occasion met here the sons of Guiscard and thirty-three bishops, to prepare the council that would be held a few days later at Melfi. There are 1,406 residents.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Banzi, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.