Patron saint festival In 291 days
Feast of Saint Stephen
📅 Every year, on 3 August
On 3 August Fontegreca, a municipality of 849 inhabitants in the province of Caserta, celebrates its patron Saint Stephen (santo Stefano).
The village used to be called Fossaceca. In 1862 the town council decided to change its name and built one out of two pieces: Fonte, from a spring of very cold water, and greca, taken from old manuscripts in which the place was called Fossa Graeca. Since then it is Fontegreca, but in dialect people still say Fossacèca.
In 1927, when the province of Caserta was abolished, Fontegreca ended up in the province of Campobasso, in Molise, and stayed there until 1945. In between came the war: the Germans had their command post in Palazzo Parrillo, the people fled up to the mountains of Gallo Matese, and the Americans entered the village on 1 November 1943, after days of shelling.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.