Patron saint festival In 22 days
Feast of Saint Leonard
📅 Every year, on 6 November
On 6 November Masi Torello celebrates its patron Saint Leonard of Noblac; the town also preserves Villa Zanardi.
The name may come from manso, the holding, joined to torelus, the twisted rope: it would have been a farm where rope was made. But on the coat of arms there is a bull, which pulls towards the Torelli, the Ferrara family — and of Torelli holdings hereabouts there is no document.
Masi Torello has been a comune only since the twenty-fifth of September 1959: before that it was a hamlet of Portomaggiore, and the first town council took its seat at the end of 1960. Before the twelve hundreds the place appears in no document at all, and it is thought that it simply was not there. The village has a station on the Ferrara-Codigoro line.
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🍝 The flavours of Masi Torello
Coppia Ferrarese bread with a central knot and four horns, lard and sourdough
Flour, lard, oil and sourdough starter, a soft knot at the centre and four thin horns: coppia ferrarese has held Protected Geographical Indication status since 2001.
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Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 21 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Ponte Leproso 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman bridge over the Sabato where the Via Appia entered Benevento, rebuilt in 1712; UNESCO site. Basilica del Corpus Domini 📍 Maddaloni · 17 km Maddaloni's main church, with a high altar designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and panels by Pompeo Landolfo. basilica della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Benevento · 17 km Neoclassical Greek-cross basilica to the patron Madonna of Benevento, with a Franciscan convent. teatro romano di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman theatre inaugurated under Hadrian between 125 and 128, with a 98-metre cavea; still used for shows. duomo di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Cathedral rebuilt after its destruction in 1943, keeping the Romanesque façade, bell tower and ancient crypt.