Patron saint festival In 51 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Stella Cilento celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Until 1871 this village was called Porcili, the pigsties. The name, clearly, was not to everyone's taste: the council changed it, taking the new one from the mountain beside it, Monte Stella, and adding Cilento to say where it stands. The settlement had been born around the thirteenth century, when some inhabitants of nearby Torricelle moved up here.
The hamlets, though, are older than the village itself. The church of San Pietro at Guarrazzano is already recorded as a ruin in 1009, probably because of the Saracen raids that were hitting this coast in those years; and San Giovanni appears for the first time in 1047, but as a sors, a share of land: that there was a settlement there is written only from 1392 onwards. The municipality then followed the fortunes of the district of Pollica into the twentieth century.
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Teatro Bibiena 📍 Mantua · 24 km Designed by Antonio Galli da Bibbiena in 1767, this bell-shaped Mantuan theatre hosted a young Mozart in 1770. castello di San Giorgio 📍 Mantua · 24 km Gonzaga fortress in Mantua, famous for the Camera degli Sposi frescoes painted by Andrea Mantegna. Palazzo Ducale 📍 Mantua · 24 km Spanning over 35,000 square metres, the Gonzaga palace in Mantua is one of Europe's largest royal residences. chiesa di San Sebastiano 📍 Mantua · 24 km Designed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1460, the Temple of San Sebastiano is a Renaissance church in Mantua. basilica di Sant'Andrea 📍 Mantua · 24 km The largest church in Mantua, a Renaissance masterpiece designed by Leon Battista Alberti. piazza Virgiliana 📍 Mantua · 24 km A historic green square in Mantua featuring a grand Carrara marble monument dedicated to the Roman poet Virgil.