Until 1882 the village was called Vitulaccio, and that ending must have weighed: by a royal decree of Umberto the First, from the first of January 1883, it became Vitulazio. The name comes from the same place all the same, from calves — vitulus — and on the coat of arms two calves still stand rampant against each other, holding up a pine tree with their legs.
Autonomy had arrived in 1806, when a decree of Joseph Bonaparte detached it from the casali of Capua, among which Vitulazio was already counted in the tenth century. Under Fascism it was lost again: Vitulazio and neighbouring Bellona were joined into a single municipality, named Villa Volturno. Today the village sits at the crossing of the Appian Way, the Casilina and the motorway of the Sun.
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📅 Every year, on 26 December
Vitulazio also celebrates Saint Stephen on 26 December; the other patron, Our Lady of the Agnena, is celebrated from the Thursday to the Sunday after Easter.
📅 Every year, from the Thursday after Easter, with the solemn Sunday-after-Easter procession
Vitulazio celebrates Our Lady of the Agnena starting on the Thursday after Easter, with the feast culminating in the solemn, long procession of the Sunday after Easter, in which the sacred image of the Madonna is placed on a great cart decorated with flowers.
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Outside Vitulazio, but an easy day trip away.
