Santopadre has changed its name twice, and the second time it took the name of a man. In ancient times it was called Fiorolo, or Forolo; then, when it was ringed with walls and became to all effects a castrum, a fortified town, it became Castro Forolo. Today's name, instead, comes from the devotion to San Folco, a hermit who lived near the village and who is its patron. Inside those medieval walls everything is still there: it is the smallest village of the district, built in stone, very quiet, made of narrow alleys that go to meet each other in just two streets. It stands in a much exposed position, and for that reason the air is always cool and dry: in summer it is pleasant, in winter it is hard, but snow is seldom seen.
Below the built-up part, along the ring road, is the fountain dal Salcio: it was recovered in the middle of the nineteenth century and put right again in 1990, and it keeps a cistern of Roman date. In the centre a monument carries the names of the men of Santopadre who fell in the first world war. The village has a station of its own on the Avezzano to Roccasecca railway, and an economy of the smallest measure: in 2015 the active firms were fifty-three and gave work to eighty-seven people, that is, little more than one apiece. Football, too, is done together with the others: since 2022 Santopadre, Arpino and Fontana Liri have a single team, called Terra di Cicerone because Cicero was born at Arpino, and it plays its home games at Fontana Liri.
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📅 Every year, on 22 May
On 22 May Santopadre, a municipality of 1,410 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, celebrates its patron Saint Fulk (San Folco), an English religious, pilgrim and confessor.
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Outside Santopadre, but an easy day trip away.
