Patron saint festival In 270 days
Feast of Saint Henry
📅 Every year, on 13 July
On 13 July Polia, a municipality of 1,048 inhabitants in the province of Vibo Valentia, celebrates its patron Saint Henry (Sant'Enrico).
The name is the Greek for city. After the earthquake of 1783 the people of Polia and Poliolo fled to the hamlets of Cellia and Menniti, and since the churches were down they planted three great crosses of olive wood in the upper part of the old village and gathered there to pray around the priest on feast days: the place is still called Trecroci.
There were fourteen water mills here, nearly all of them belonging to the better-off families, and each could grind two hundred kilos of wheat in an hour; the women strawed chairs with a marsh plant, and others wove the mats for the olive presses. In the village there is a museum for Fortunato Gaccetta, a sculptor born here in 1920, who won a gold medal at Stockholm and was named prince of art by the king of Spain.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.