Patron saint festival In 283 days
Feast of Saint James
📅 Every year, on 25 July
On 25 July Portico e San Benedetto, a municipality of 769 inhabitants in the province of Forlì-Cesena, celebrates its patron Saint James (San Giacomo).
Portico di Romagna is built on three superimposed levels, distinct but linked by passageways, and they can still be seen: at the top the castle, the pieve and the podestà's palace; in the middle the arcades and the nobles' palaces; at the bottom, along the river, the commoners' houses carved into the walls. At the four ends of the borough stood as many watchtowers, which in time became tool sheds or swallow lofts. From 1386 the village passed to Florence and became the capital of the Tuscan Romagna.
The municipality was born of the union, in 1775, of Portico and San Benedetto in Alpe, which had grown around a Benedictine abbey of the year one thousand. Above San Benedetto is the Acquacheta waterfall, which Dante names in the sixteenth canto of the Inferno. And at Portico, over the Montone, the Ponte della Maestà still keeps its fourteenth-century paving.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Portico e San Benedetto, but an easy day trip away.
Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 700 m Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 12 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 15 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Celia peuceta 📍 Bari · 17 km Ancient Caelia, the Peucetian city that Bari beat with its harbour. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 24 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 23 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture.