Patron saint festival In 276 days
Feast of Sant'Alessio di Roma
📅 Every year, on 17 July
On 17 July Sant'Alessio in Aspromonte, a municipality of 323 inhabitants in the province of Reggio Calabria, celebrates its patron Sant'Alessio di Roma.
With less than four square kilometres it is the smallest comune by area in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria; and it is also one of the oldest in the Aspromonte, born between the thirteenth and the fourteenth century. The old mill is of the fourteenth century too, and in the old centre there are still houses left broken by the earthquake of 1908.
Garibaldi passed through here — the source says only that, and nothing more — and the village has never forgotten it: the road that crosses it bears his name, his monument stands in the square, and the church of the Annunziata is on that same street. The football ground, where the five-a-side team plays, has a stand for a hundred people: almost a third of the village.
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chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.