Patron saint festival In 277 days
Saint Symphorosa, patron of the Filimarino Feudal Castle
📅 Every year, on 18 July
Roccadaspide celebrates Saint Symphorosa on 18 July.
At the end of the nineties the municipality renamed itself Rocca d'Aspide, convinced that the name came from the asp, the snake said to infest the area. Then it went back: the likeliest explanation is that aspis in Greek means shield, and that the fortress was precisely a defence. A deed of 15 May 1092 calls it in Latin the castle they call asprium.
Long before, at the spring of the Cosa, the Greeks of Paestum had placed a sanctuary right on the edge of their territory: it served to meet the older inhabitants of these hills in a sacred place, and to trade something with them. Today Roccadaspide is known for the marrone, the chestnut that bears its name and carries the PGI mark.
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Near Roccadaspide
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Roccadaspide, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.