Patron saint festival In 297 days
Saint Lawrence the Martyr, patron of the town
📅 Every year, on 10 August
San Lorenzo del Vallo celebrates Saint Lawrence the Martyr on 10 August, in the church dedicated to him.
San Lorenzo del Vallo has 3,465 inhabitants in the valley of the Esaro, between Castrovillari and Tarsia. Sea shells are found in the territory, and indeed it is thought that in remote times this whole plain was under the sea. The name, on the other hand, comes from the Roman army: a camp called Castrum Laurentum was quartered here, and from Laurentum to San Lorenzo is a short step.
The second half of the name has a stranger story. In the eighteenth century "della Valle" was added to the town, almost certainly to honour the de Alarcón y Mendoza, marquises of the Valle Siciliana, who were the lords of the place. In the following century the formula was changed to "del Vallo", and this time the reference was no longer the family but the town's castle: the same sound, a different meaning. The Alarcón y Mendoza castle is still there, together with the Jentilino tower and the church of San Lorenzo Martire, built around 1740, with an all-stone bell tower some thirty metres high that is still the tallest thing in the town.
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Chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Treviso · 9.3 km Former church of the San Leonardo hospital in Treviso, with the 1750 Nacchini organ and canvases by Orioli. Chiesa di San Gaetano 📍 Treviso · 9.4 km Former church of the Knights of St John in Treviso, now a seat of the Museo nazionale Collezione Salce. Chiesa di San Vito 📍 Treviso · 9.7 km Church in central Treviso attested from 981, with a frescoed early medieval apse and a sixteenth-century building. Porta San Tomaso 📍 Treviso · 9.7 km Gate of Treviso's sixteenth-century walls, built in ten months in 1518 as a triumphal arch in Istrian stone. Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Treviso · 9.8 km Minor basilica in central Treviso, the Madonna Grande, saved from demolition in 1509 by the townspeople. Porta Santi Quaranta 📍 Treviso · 10 km Sixteenth-century gate of Treviso, of 1516, with the lion of Saint Mark and a double name on the arch.