Patron saint festival In 242 days
Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua
📅 Every year, on 13 June
On 13 June Scala Coeli, a municipality of 1,141 inhabitants in the province of Cosenza, celebrates its patron Saint Anthony of Padua.
The name can be read in two languages and says two things: in Latin Scala coeli, the stair of heaven; in Byzantine Greek Skàla Koìle, the hollow stair. For centuries people let the «coeli» drop, and the whole name came back only in the nineteenth century. The arms draw the thing: a black ladder set slantwise, and below it three green hills.
Vincenzo Padula described it as a walled hill girt with crags and caves, entered by four gates opened at dawn and closed at sunset: Portavavuza, Portafischìa, Portapiano and Portello. It was a village of churches too: after 1437, with the new diocese of Cariati, seven of them were counted, and a Franciscan convent besides.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Scala Coeli, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.