Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Monrupino, a municipality of 881 inhabitants in the province of Trieste, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
Above the village, on top of the hill, there is a church inside a fortified enclosure, and beside it a boulder with a mark that tradition says was left by the Virgin: women who could not have children used to rub their bellies against it. Before the church, up there, stood a prehistoric hill fort, and later a refuge for the people whenever armies came through.
On the last Sunday of August, in odd-numbered years, the Karst wedding is celebrated: a marriage in costume, with all the old rites. Here Slovene is spoken more than Italian, and the border is a step away, at the Fernetti crossing. In 1947, with the peace treaty, the comune lost five hamlets, which passed to Yugoslavia and to the comune of Sežana.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.