Patron saint festival In 253 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of the Ponte Rotto
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Apice celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June.
In 1504 king Ferdinand the Second of Aragon gave Apice a coat of arms with three mountains and ears of wheat, because the town, with the grain it grew and kept in its stores, had eased the famine that was afflicting the Kingdom of Naples that year. On today's arms the three mountains are still there, but in place of the ears there are six red flames.
On the twenty-first of August 1962 two shocks struck the Sannio and Irpinia: seventeen people died at Apice, and the ministry of public works ordered the evacuation of all six thousand five hundred inhabitants. Most of them moved to the new town, built on the plateau opposite, across the Calore. Some, though, stayed up there in spite of the order, and remained until 1980: it was the Irpinia earthquake that took the last of them away. Apice Vecchia is still there, empty.
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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.