Patron saint festival In 262 days
Feast of Saint Domenica
📅 Every year, on 6 July
On 6 July Torre di Ruggiero, a municipality of 1,131 inhabitants in the province of Catanzaro, celebrates its patroness Saint Domenica (Santa Domenica).
On the fifth of February 1783 the great Calabrian earthquake razed the building of Basilian origin that stood here; the sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie was rebuilt on the same spot only in 1858, three generations later.
The village lives above all on the round hazelnut of Calabria, brought in the mid-nineteenth century to nearby Cardinale and then carried over the boundary. It stands at more than five hundred metres, on the eastern side of the Serre above the Ancinale valley, and the Sentiero Italia, the long path of the Italian Alpine Club, crosses its beech and chestnut woods.
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Porta Mosa 📍 Cremona · 7.3 km The last gate left in Cremona, medieval in origin, with a sixteenth-century archway and the bastion of San Giorgio. Chiesa di San Sisto 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Renaissance church in Piacenza that kept Raphael's Sistine Madonna, with the tomb of Margaret of Austria. Palazzo Farnese 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Great Farnese palace of Piacenza designed by Vignola, home to the civic museums with the Etruscan liver and Botticelli. Chiesa delle Benedettine 📍 Piacenza · 20 km Deconsecrated Baroque church of 1681 built by the Farnese, with a double church for nuns and faithful and a great dome. Basilica di San Savino 📍 Piacenza · 21 km Romanesque basilica in Piacenza with a Baroque façade of 1721, a crypt with zodiac mosaics and Saint Sabinus's relics. Violin Museum 📍 Cremona · 24 km Housed in Cremona's Palazzo dell'Arte, this museum displays masterpieces by Stradivari and the city's greatest luthiers.