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Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the whole town
📅 Every year, on 29 June
San Pietro in Guarano celebrates Saint Peter the Apostle, patron of the whole town, on 29 June.
San Pietro in Guarano has 3,649 inhabitants in the Presila of Cosenza, and its territory climbs from the valley of the Crati up to the peaks of the Sila. On 3 October 1806 the brigand Francatrippa fell upon the place with six hundred men, together with the royalists of Rovito, and put to flight the French who were occupying the village, taking twenty-three prisoners: they burned them alive in the square. The French, as they left, set fire to the houses.
The marks of that day are still there: on the ceiling of the old church of San Pietro Apostolo you can still see the holes made by rifle shots, and the statue of the Madonna burned, but the Christ Child was saved — today it stands, blackened, at the feet of the new statue. It is also told that the fleeing French ran into a thick fog and fell from a cliff: a woman was washing clothes in the river, and one soldier, convinced that the Madonna was punishing them, left her some coins so that she would build a chapel to her. The cliff, in dialect, is still called Timpa di Francesi.
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Santa Maria in Gerusalemme and the vow for the 1783 earthquake
📅 Every year, on 8 September, in San Pietro centre
In the centre of San Pietro, Santa Maria in Gerusalemme is celebrated on 8 September. The church was inaugurated and blessed in 1902 on the occasion of the votive feast for the terrible 1783 earthquake.
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Su Nuraxi 📍 Barumini · 15 km A UNESCO site since 1997, Su Nuraxi is Sardinia's grandest Nuragic village, built around a 17th-century BCE basalt towe… Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's late gothic parish church, a step away from the famous nuraghe. Chiesa di Santa Tecla 📍 Barumini · 16 km The Barumini church below street level, whose steps became a bench. Chiesa di Santa Lucia 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's sixteenth-century church, with its loggia and two old bells.