Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Theodore
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November Laino Castello celebrates its patron Saint Theodore, to whom the main church in the town centre is dedicated.
The first evacuation order came in 1960, for the instability of the ground, and already in 1958 a collapsing wall had buried a doctor's car; after the earthquake of 21 March 1982 the inhabitants went down to the locality of Pornia, where the municipality was rebuilt, and the village above was left empty.
Before it emptied, Laino was a place that counted: from 851 it was the head of one of the largest gastaldates of the south, the liturgy was sung in Greek until 1562 because of the Basilian monks, and in 1500 the fief went to the de Cardenas, marquises of Laino. Every Christmas the abandoned village fills up again for the living nativity, staged in its houses and in the caves cut into the rock.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.