Patron saint festival In 310 days
Feast of the Madonna della Rupe
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August San Martino d'Agri, a municipality of 825 inhabitants in the province of Potenza, celebrates its patroness the Madonna della Rupe.
For eleven months of the year San Martino d'Agri counts a little over eight hundred people. In August it counts twice that: the Sammartinesi come back from North and South America, from Australia, for the feast of the Madonna della Rupe, and for a few days the town looks like what it used to be.
What it used to be is in the figures: 2,000 residents in 1896, 1,300 in 1929, after emigration to the Americas had emptied the houses. The Madonna's chapel stands on top of Monte Raparello, bare and stony, and people walk up in pilgrimage in May and in August. There are 825 residents.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Martino d'Agri, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.