Patron saint festival In 14 days
Saint Stephen Minicillo, patron of the polygonal walls
📅 Every year, on 29 October, in the land of the polygonal walls
Caiazzo celebrates Saint Stephen Minicillo on 29 October.
Caiatia struck its own coins: between the third century before Christ and the Second Punic War it issued coins with the head of Minerva in a Corinthian helmet and, on the reverse, a cockerel and an eight-pointed star. On the castle hill you can still see stretches of Samnite polygonal walls of the fourth century before Christ. In 1229 Frederick the Second and his chancellor Pier della Vigna founded here one of the three Courts of Accounts of the Kingdom.
In October 1943, in the Monte Carmignano district, the retreating Germans killed twenty-two people: eight women and nine children between three and twelve years old. For that massacre two soldiers, a second lieutenant and a sergeant, were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994. Three months later, on the twenty-seventh of January 1944, American aircraft bombed the town by mistake, killing twenty more civilians.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.