On Easter Monday, thousands of barefoot "fujenti" run toward the sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Arco: one of the South's most intense pilgrimages, born of the fifteenth-century prodigy of the struck, bleeding image venerated here. The sanctuary, with its thousands of ex-votos, is the heart of Sant'Anastasia and draws the faithful all year round.
The town sits on the slopes of Monte Somma, Vesuvius's ancient crater, inside the National Park: trails through chestnut woods and catalanesca vineyards complete an identity where folk faith and volcano walk hand in hand. Naples is fifteen minutes away.
Near Sant'Anastasia
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
