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Saint Anthony of Padua, spring patron of Roccamonfina
📅 Every year, on the last Tuesday of May
Roccamonfina celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on the last Tuesday of May.
Roccamonfina has 3,626 inhabitants inside the crater of an extinct volcano, at six hundred metres, on the slopes of Monte Santa Croce, which is its terminal cone. The name comes from just there: in the documents of the year one thousand that mountain was called Monte Fino, and in the seventeenth century the letters L.A.M.F., Locus Arcis Montis Fini, appeared on the coat of arms. The legend of princess Fina fleeing persecution, on the other hand, has no foundation.
The crater is all chestnut groves, and the chestnut of Roccamonfina now carries a protected geographical indication; at Pratolongo the neviere remain, where snow used to be stored. The weekly market has been held since 1352, and in 1430 Saint Bernardino of Siena and Saint James of the Marches founded here the sanctuary of Maria Santissima dei Lattani, after a statue of the Virgin had been found. Not far off, near the hamlet of San Domenico, the village of Cerquarola is a ghost town, abandoned after earthquakes.
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Patron saint festival In 319 days
Saint Anthony of Padua, summer patron of Roccamonfina
📅 Every year, on the last Sunday of August
Roccamonfina celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua a second time on the last Sunday of August.
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Near Roccamonfina
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Roccamonfina, 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.