Patron saint festival In 191 days
Feast of Saint George
📅 On 23 April and on 19 August (votive feast)
On 23 April and, as a votive feast, on 19 August Cicerale celebrates its patron Saint George, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The village takes its name from the chickpea, which is still grown here and remains the thing worth talking about. Its shape is all its own: two rows of houses on either side of a single street, on a spur of monte San Leo, on the right flank of the upper Alento valley.
Before Cicerale there was Corbella, higher up on monte Battaglia, and nobody lives there now: the ruins of the walls, of the church and of the castle are left. The oldest reports of Corbella are Norman and the last stop with the Angevins; and it is just then, in the second half of the fifteenth century, under the Aragonese, that the name of Cicerale appears for the first time. One village was going out as the other began.
The Cicerale guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Cicerale 1
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🍝 The flavours of Cicerale
Carciofo di Paestum large round artichoke, grown in the Sele plain
A large, round artichoke head, the Romanesco type: Carciofo di Paestum, grown in the Sele plain since the 1920s, has held IGP status since 2004.
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Near Cicerale
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cicerale, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.