Patron saint festival In 253 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Castelfranco in Miscano, a municipality of 935 inhabitants in the province of Benevento, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Along the road that climbs to the village the bolle della Malvizza steam, the largest group of mud volcanoes in the southern Apennines: water and clay boiling cold on an open plateau, and the name, in dialect, is that of the blackbird. The castle that gives the village its name belonged to a Frank, or perhaps «franco» meant free from taxes.
Castelfranco is the easternmost municipality of the Benevento province, and it got there late: it lay in the Principato Ultra, in 1811 it passed to the district of Bovino in the Capitanata, and only in 1861 did it enter the newly created province of Benevento. On the via Francigena, which here follows the Roman Traiana, stand the farmstead of Tre Fontane and the memory of the fortress of Crepacuore, which the village had to help repair.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castelfranco in Miscano, 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.