Patron saint festival In 52 days
Saint Nicholas of Bari, patron of the Castello di Cisterna
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Castello di Cisterna celebrates Saint Nicholas of Bari on 6 December, in the church dedicated to him.
In the seventh book of the Aeneid Virgil lists the lands conquered by Oebalus, king of Capri: Batulum, Rufrae, Celemna and the fields of Abella. The ancient commentators, Servius and Aelius Donatus, explain that Batulum and Rufrae were castella of Campania founded by the Samnites, and some believe that Rufrae stood right here.
What is certain is that until 1862 the village was called simply Cisterna, and in dialect it still is: the name is said to come from the pools that formed after rain, or from a cistern where rainwater was collected to water the horses. In the thirteenth century it was a fief of the Mastrilli of Marigliano; today it is joined to Pomigliano and Brusciano in a single built-up area.
The Castello di Cisterna guide
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castello di Cisterna, but an easy day trip away.
castello di San Lorenzo 📍 Gattinara · 6.2 km At 540 metres, the ruins of the castle Vercelli raised in 1187 over the mouths of the Valsesia chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Gattinara · 7.7 km The grand chancellor of Charles V asked to be buried underfoot, out of humility Villa Cavalleri 📍 Gattinara · 7.4 km Twenty oak barrels of a hundred hectolitres, then a storm and a passage to Argentina chiesa di Santa Marta 📍 Gattinara · 7.8 km Beneath the baroque, frescoes of 1460 survive: processions of notables and common folk chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario 📍 Gattinara · 8.0 km Gerolamo Giovenone's triptych of the early 1530s, above the niche of the Virgin Torre delle Castelle 📍 Gattinara · 7.9 km Gattinara's symbol: an eleventh-century tower between two walled enclosures, now among vineyards