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Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 7 July
On 7 July Vallemaio, a municipality of 1,002 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, celebrates its patron Saint Thomas the Apostle.
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Until 1932 the village was called Vallefredda, cold valley, and the name told the truth: though the sea is thirty kilometres off, the winter here is genuinely cold. Then it took the name of the mountain at whose foot it stands, the Maio. It had been built around the year one thousand by the counts of Suio and the hypati of Gaeta; in 1079 Montecassino gave it a charter of liberties with rights generous for the time.
Then the Gustav Line came through. After the eighth of September they fought for months on Monte Maio, and the trenches dug then can still be seen. The village was almost entirely destroyed, and much of the ruin is still standing as the war left it; the civilian dead were many, and the works of art were carried off by the Germans.
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castello di San Lorenzo 📍 Gattinara · 6.2 km At 540 metres, the ruins of the castle Vercelli raised in 1187 over the mouths of the Valsesia chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Gattinara · 7.7 km The grand chancellor of Charles V asked to be buried underfoot, out of humility Villa Cavalleri 📍 Gattinara · 7.4 km Twenty oak barrels of a hundred hectolitres, then a storm and a passage to Argentina chiesa di Santa Marta 📍 Gattinara · 7.8 km Beneath the baroque, frescoes of 1460 survive: processions of notables and common folk chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario 📍 Gattinara · 8.0 km Gerolamo Giovenone's triptych of the early 1530s, above the niche of the Virgin Torre delle Castelle 📍 Gattinara · 7.9 km Gattinara's symbol: an eleventh-century tower between two walled enclosures, now among vineyards