Patron saint festival In 27 days
Feast of Saint Leo the Great
📅 Every year, on 10 November
On 10 November Cairano celebrates its patron Saint Leo the Great; the town preserves the ruins of the Castello di Cairano.
On the crag above Cairano stands an unusual installation: three wind organs, groups of pipes that sound when the wind blows, with no one touching them. Beneath the houses there are more than a hundred cellars dug into the rock, used since ancient times to keep wine. The old centre has kept its medieval shape, with narrow lanes climbing in a spiral.
On the hill of the Calvary an Iron Age necropolis was found, with grave goods local, Greek and Etruscan: the archaeological culture takes its name from the village, the Oliveto-Cairano culture. In 1963 a neorealist film, La donnaccia, was shot here, and many local people acted in it. In 2014 seven writers wrote seven stories about Cairano, in a project curated by the director Franco Dragone, who was born here.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cairano, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.