Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Belmonte Castello celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari; the municipal territory includes Monte Morrone.
Until 1819 Belmonte belonged to Atina; then it became a casale of Terelle, and only in 1851 did Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies make it a comune of its own. The name comes from the Latin Bellus Mons, and the second half, Castello, was added to it in 1862. The village stands on top of a hill, in the narrow valley that leads from the val di Comino to the Cassino country.
Until 2014 the comune was in no diocese at all: it lay inside the territorial abbey of Montecassino. Then pope Francis reduced that territory to the abbey church and the monastery alone, and Belmonte passed to the diocese of Sora, which changed its name for the occasion. At Costa Campopiano the remains of a Roman aqueduct are still there.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.