When the last inhabitants of Cales abandoned the city, towards the end of the eighth century, they scattered into the surrounding country: out of that dispersal four villages were born, Calvi Risorta, Sparanise, Francolise and Pignataro. The name may come from the pignattari, the makers of cooking pots, and pottery had been the trade of the people of Cales; though some derive it from a pine wood or from the surname of a Capuan family.
On the fifteenth of December 1862 the word Maggiore was added to the name, from the mountain behind the village, so as not to confuse it with the other Pignataro, the one near Cassino; which shortly afterwards gave in as well and became Pignataro Interamna. In 1647, during the revolt of Masaniello, the troops of Diomede Carafa sacked Calvi and Pignataro: the bishop's house was nearly pulled down and the archive burned, and the bishop moved his see here.
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📅 Every year, on the first Sunday of June
Pignataro Maggiore celebrates Saint George the Martyr on the first Sunday of June, in the church dedicated to him. The hamlets and districts have their own patrons: Saint Vitus the Martyr in Partignano, Our Lady of Sorrows in the Rarone district.
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Outside Pignataro Maggiore, but an easy day trip away.
