Patron saint festival In 315 days
Feast of San Bartolomeo Apostolo
📅 Every year, on 25 August
On 25 August Cassano Irpino, a municipality of 967 inhabitants in the province of Avellino, celebrates its patron San Bartolomeo the apostle.
The water from here goes to Puglia: the Picentini springs that rise in the municipal territory are gathered into a tunnel seventeen kilometres long and feed the Apulian aqueduct, serving one hundred and eighteen municipalities of the Avellino area and some towns in the Benevento one. The same springs swell the Calore, which runs below the village.
The name comes from a praedium Cassianum, the estate of the gens Cassia; at the top of the village stands the castle the Lombards built, later a baronial palace, and the borgo grew around its keep. The coat of arms is known from an image of 1537, almost the same as today's. The land gives the chestnut of Montella and the Cassano apples, and the station, on the Avellino-Rocchetta line, now sees only heritage trains.
The Cassano Irpino guide
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Near Cassano Irpino
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cassano Irpino, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.