Patron saint festival In 109 days
Feast of Saint Blaise
📅 Every year, on 3 February
On 3 February Colloredo di Monte Albano celebrates its patron Saint Blaise; the Castello di Colloredo and the Castello di Caporiacco stand in the municipality.
In the castle of Colloredo, begun in 1302, Ippolito Nievo lived and wrote: here he made Le confessioni di un italiano, and the kitchen described in the novel is the castle's own. The Nievo had come into the place by a marriage, like many other families: the Colloredo Mels married into half of Friuli.
A piece of the east wing was painted red, and not for beauty: it was called the Casa Rossa and it served to draw attacks to that spot, to spare the rest of the complex. The earthquake of 1976 brought down almost everything, this castle, the one at Mels, the one at Caporiacco, the church of Ognissanti, and since then it has been rebuilt: Caporiacco stone by stone, at the wish of a descendant, and the tower of Mels from 1994.
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chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Norcia · 8.6 km Hilltop church of Campi Vecchio, destroyed in the 26 October 2016 earthquake; today a place of memory. chiesa di San Salvatore 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Historic Romanesque church near Norcia built over a Roman temple, largely destroyed in the 2016 earthquakes. chiesa di Sant'Andrea 📍 Norcia · 8.7 km Campi's fourteenth-century parish church, badly hit in 2016; its medieval treasures now rest in Spoleto. chiesa della Madonna Bianca 📍 Norcia · 11 km A 14th-century church near Norcia, famous for its marble relief of the Madonna Bianca by Francesco di Simone Ferrucci. Sito archeologico di Forca d'Ancarano 📍 Norcia · 13 km An ancient Italic mountain sanctuary near Norcia, used from the 6th century BC as a sacred crossroads. basilica di San Benedetto 📍 Norcia · 15 km Built over the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica, this historic Norcia basilica reopened in October 2025.