Patron saint festival In 42 days
Feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
📅 Every year, on 25 November
On 25 November Monteverde celebrates its patron Saint Catherine of Alexandria; the town preserves the Castello di Monteverde.
From 1532 to 1641 this village of Irpinia belonged to the Grimaldi, the family that reigns in Monaco: the castle, raised by the Lombards, still bears their name. Earlier still Monteverde was a bishop's seat, from the eleventh century until 1531; the mother church was its cathedral, and the diocese was closed altogether in 1818.
Since 2006 the village has set about making itself walkable by those who cannot see: five kilometres of tactile paths in the paving, audio guides, routes for those who cannot hear and for those who find walking hard. In 2019 the European Union gave it a prize for this, collected in Brussels. And since 2010, in spring, the black stork, which is very rare, nests here.
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Near Monteverde
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Monteverde, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.