Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Mongiana, a municipality of 796 inhabitants in the province of Vibo Valentia, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
The village was born on 8 March 1771 to give the workers somewhere to sleep: the Bourbons had put here, in the woods of the Serre, the royal ironworks and the arms factory, and up to two thousand eight hundred people worked in them, craftsmen, clerks, managers and soldiers.
From these forges came the rails of the Naples to Portici line, the first railway in Italy, the iron of the first suspension bridge in Italy, the Real Ferdinando over the Garigliano, and a rifle actually called the Mongiana. Ferdinand II came to see it in October 1852; in 1881 everything closed. Today what is left of the works is a museum, and in 2024 Eugenio Bennato wrote a song about it.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Mongiana, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.