Patron saint festival In 222 days
Feast of Saint Philip Neri
📅 Every year, on 26 May
On 26 May Candida, a municipality of 1,152 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates its patron Saint Philip Neri.
The name comes from the white rocks on which the old part of the village stands: locus candidus. A document of 1576 calls it «in a high place and of good air», three miles from Avellino, and the historian Zigarelli wrote that from its slopes twelve villages can be seen, forming a crown around it.
The Catalogus Baronum, drawn up for Roger II between 1150 and 1168, gives Candida as a fief of two knights, in the hands of a Norman, Alduino, who then lost it after a quarrel with the chancellor. In 1420 Caterina Filangieri brought it as her dowry when she married Sergianni Caracciolo. And in 1440 Alfonso of Aragon signed a letter «from our happy camps against the land of Candida».
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.