Patron saint festival In 213 days
Saint Hellerus of Galeata and the ancient abbey
📅 Every year, on 15 May
Galeata celebrates Saint Hellerus on 15 May, in the abbey that bears his name.
On the plateau north of the village stood Mevanìola, an Umbrian town and later a Roman municipium, with its forum, its baths and a theatre of Greek taste. Monsignor Domenico Mambrini recognised it in 1934, by finding the floor mosaics; when the town was abandoned, its stones went into building lower down, where Galeata later grew.
The abbey of Sant'Ellero, founded by tradition around 490, was a diocese nullius: it ruled the territory with its own parishes and castles, and the story even tells of a meeting between the saint and Theodoric. The pope suppressed it in 1785 at the grand duke's request. Galeata stayed in the province of Florence until 1923.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.