Patron saint festival In 313 days
Saint Bartholomew, patron of Tufino
📅 Every year, on 24 August
Tufino celebrates Saint Bartholomew on 24 August, in the church dedicated to him together with Saint John the Baptist.
Tufino has 3,785 inhabitants in the plain of Nola, where traces of centuriation recall the colonies of Roman veterans. At the end of 1995, at Schiava, the walls and the necropolis of a sixth-century church came to light. From 1292 to 1533 the territory belonged to the Orsini county of Nola, with the hamlets of Tufino, Vignola, Risigliano and Ponticchio; then the feudal rights passed from hand to hand until they reached the Mastrilli.
At Ponticchio the Mastrilli had their palace, and from that single house came three very different figures: Isabella, a poet and playwright, who entered the Arcadia under the name of Elinda Zelea; Francesco Saverio, archbishop of Taranto; and Marzio, minister for the Bourbons, for Joseph Bonaparte and for Murat, who as plenipotentiary signed the treaty of Campoformio under the name of Marquis de Gallo, beside that of Napoleon. After the Napoleonic age two Carbonari societies worked here, «La Costanza di Catone» and «Gli Ordoni al Ponte».
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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.