Patron saint festival In 253 days
Saint John the Baptist, patron of Apollosa
📅 Every year, on 24 June
Apollosa celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June, with Saint Anne as second patron on 26 July.
The municipal arms show the god Apollo with his lyre, but the god has nothing to do with it: the historian Alfonso Meomartini traced the name backwards — Apollosa, Apellosa, Lapelusa, Pelusia, Pellosa, Lapillosa — to «la pelosa», the hairy one, meaning the slope covered in scrub. A sixth-century inscription by Turpilio calls the place urbs, a city; and near the bridge on the Appia two milestones were found concerning the rebuilding of that same bridge, one datable to around 198, under Septimius Severus.
The old village stood on top of a hill overlooking the Appia, at a spot still called Terravecchia. In 1460 Ferdinand I had it destroyed because its lords, the Della Leonessa, had taken the side of John of Anjou; it was later rebuilt where it stands today, and of the old one only the ruins of the castle remain. On the Appia, at the boundary with Ceppaloni, stood the Taverna del Passo, named after the feudal customs post there, with a mill still working before the First World War.
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Patron saint festival In 285 days
Saint Anne, second patron of Apollosa
📅 Every year, on 26 July
Apollosa celebrates Saint Anne on 26 July, alongside patron Saint John the Baptist, celebrated on 24 June.
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Near Apollosa
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Apollosa, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.