Patron saint festival In 301 days
Feast of San Donato
📅 Every year, on 12 August
On 12 August Carbone, a municipality of 705 inhabitants in the province of Potenza, celebrates its patron San Donato.
In 1860, when the plebiscite for unification was voted, at Carbone they burned the ballot urns. The rebellion was paid for dearly: in February of the following year some young men of the town were shot, accused of dodging the draft and condemned without trial.
The town had grown around the Basilian monastery of Sant'Elia, whose first document is of 1041, and in 1167 the abbey of Santi Elia e Anastasio was the centre of gravity of the Basilians of southern Italy. Until 1716 Carbone was nullius diocesis: it belonged to no bishopric and answered directly to Rome. There are 705 residents.
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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.