Patron saint festival In 52 days
Saint Nicholas and Monte Cimone
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Sestola celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the shadow of Monte Cimone, which at 2,165 metres dominates the entire Sestola area.
At the end of the seventeen hundreds the via Giardini was opened, and Sestola found itself off the roads that counted. The fortress, which no longer had anything to defend, was turned into a penitentiary, and the prisoners stayed in it until 1866; then a meteorological observatory and a summer institute for sick children were put inside it.
The castle appears for the first time in the diploma by which, in 753, the Lombard king Aistulf gave it to the abbey of Nonantola. Above the village, which at one thousand and twenty metres is the second highest comune seat in Emilia-Romagna, stands Monte Cimone: on the summit there are an air force weather station and a CNR observatory.
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🍝 The flavours of Sestola
Aceto Balsamico di Modena cooked grape must and wine vinegar, dense and sweet-and-sour
Cooked grape must and wine vinegar aged in wooden barrels: Aceto Balsamico di Modena has held Protected Geographical Indication status since 2009.
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Near Sestola
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sestola, but an easy day trip away.
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.