Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December (Saint Nicholas) and 13 June (Saint Anthony)
Alfano celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December; the other patron, Saint Anthony, is celebrated on 13 June.
The arms are a letter: a black A in Roman lapidary character on a gold field, with two red balls at its sides. The name would come from a Roman family name, Alfius, and perhaps further back from the Greek Alfeiòs. The village appears in the records for the first time in 1309.
After that the fief changed hands continually: from the Sanseverino to the king's demesne, in 1427 to the Dal Verme, in 1496 to a Carafa, back to the Dal Verme — who in 1566 kept the jurisdiction after a lawsuit —, in 1588 to Paolo Brancaccio, in 1594 to a Carrano of Diano, and from 1619 to the Bernalla, who held it almost without a break through the eighteenth century. The village lies on the flanks of monte Gelbison, inside the Cilento park.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Alfano, 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.