Patron saint festival In 228 days
Saint Clinius the Abbot, patron of Esperia
📅 Every year, on 30 May
Esperia celebrates Saint Clinius the Abbot on 30 May.
The name was chosen in 1867, when Roccaguglielma and San Pietro merged into a single comune: Hesperus, the star, is also the name by which the ancient Greeks called the Italian peninsula. Before that the village was Roccaguglielma, after the castrum that the Norman William of Blosseville had built in the twelfth century on Monte Cecubo, gathering the scattered population inside it: it served to control the pass that led from Pontecorvo and Aquino to Gaeta without going through Cassino.
In the church of Santa Maria Maggiore the wooden statue of the patron, San Clino Abate, is said to take the features of Clino Roselli, a man of Esperia who took an active part in the Parthenopean Republic and was executed by the Bourbons in 1799. Esperia lay on the Gustav line, and it was precisely here that the front was broken through: for the violence suffered by the population that followed, the marocchinate, the comune holds the gold medal for civil merit. The village also gives its name to a breed of pony, raised in the wild and never kept in a stable.
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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.