Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June San Pietro al Natisone, a municipality of 2,223 inhabitants in the province of Udine, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
The village was called San Pietro degli Slavi, Saint Peter of the Slavs, until 1869, when the comune asked to change the name; but in the registers of baptisms and deaths the parish priests went on writing Paroecia Sancti Petri Slavorum until 1940, and in some cases later still. Today the official name is double again: San Pietro al Natisone - Špietar. In the census of 1971 three quarters of the inhabitants declared themselves Slovenes.
These valleys governed themselves for centuries. Until the fall of Venice the Benečija, a name that comes from Benetke, which is Venice in Slovene, was divided into two contrade, Antro and Merso, which sent the deans of the villages to the vicinìe and to the Arengo, and judged in the first instance. It was the price Venice paid to have its north-eastern border watched.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.