Patron saint festival In 111 days
Feast of Our Lady of the Fratte
📅 Every year, on 2 February
On 2 February Castel Baronia celebrates Our Lady of the Fratte, the town's patroness, to whom the Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Fratte is dedicated.
Bone combs were made here, and sold all over the kingdom of Naples and the Papal State. Among those merchants, from the early nineteenth century, went a jargon of their own, the ciaschino: Irpinian dialect with words deliberately twisted, so as not to be understood. The jargon has died out, but a few of its words have stayed in the speech of the village.
The castle is of 1130, and in 1527 Traiano Carafa sold it to the Mancini, who turned it into a palace: there the jurist Pasquale Stanislao Mancini was born. «Baronia» has been in the name since the village passed under the barony of Vico, today's Trevico. The mother church, founded in 1137, was brought down by the earthquake of 1930; the one of 1694 had already ruined half the village.
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Outside Castel Baronia, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.