Patron saint festival In 279 days
Feast of Santa Margherita di Antiochia
📅 Every year, on 20 July
On 20 July Sappada, a municipality of 1,306 inhabitants in the province of Udine, celebrates its patroness Santa Margherita di Antiochia.
In 1852 the two hundred and sixty-three heads of household of Sappada were asked whether they wanted to move to the province of Belluno: they voted yes, unanimously. A century and a half later they changed their minds, and with the referendum of 2008 they asked for Friuli: the transfer came in 2017, but the village remains part of the Magnifica Comunità di Cadore.
Here they speak plodarisch, a mountain German that came from the Puster valley; and it was because of the dialect that, after Caporetto, the people of Sappada were suspected of Austrian sympathies and evacuated: the municipality had its seat at Arezzo from 1917 to 1919, and in 2017 the two towns were twinned. In the coat of arms there is a miner at work, as has been the custom since 1890: the king granted another one, with mattocks, and the municipality went on using its own.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.