Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Castelnovo del Friuli celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas; the municipal territory includes the Osservatorio Tigre.
The bell tower of the church of Borc was not born a bell tower: it was the tower of the medieval castle, and they converted it. The castle, which gives the village its name, was of the tenth century, and the name appears for the first time in 1140. The «del Friuli» was added in 1867, so as not to confuse it with the other Castelnovos.
At Villa Sulis there is an exhibition about bowls: pottery was made here, and a collection of it remains. The new church of Paludea took twenty-six years to go up: first stone in 1934, finished in 1960. In 1976 the Friuli earthquake brought down half the village.
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Outside Castelnovo del Friuli, but an easy day trip away.
Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.