Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Matthew
📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Sicignano degli Alburni celebrates Saint Matthew; the village also preserves the Sanctuary of the Madonna dell'Incoronata.
Sicignano degli Alburni has 3,419 inhabitants between the Tanagro valley and the Alburni mountains, almost all of it inside the Cilento national park; on its coat of arms it has a rocky mountain with a golden sun above it. Tradition traces the village back, around 450 before Christ, to Lucius Siccius Dentatus, tribune of the plebs, sent to fight the Sabines who were plundering the countryside of Rome: according to Livy he was killed by treachery on the initiative of the decemvirs, who were afraid of the speeches with which he demanded that the plebeians be given back their rights.
The first document that names Sicignano is an act of 1086: the Norman count Asclettino di Sicignano, lord of Polla, gave the abbey of Cava dei Tirreni the monastery of San Pietro, and he died in the same year. Today the village is reached from a motorway junction, but the station is ten kilometres away, in a place called San Licandro: from there the railway to Lagonegro also set off, suspended since 1987 and replaced by a few bus runs.
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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.