Patron saint festival In 251 days
Feast of Saint John the Baptist
📅 Every year, on 24 June
On 24 June Casperia, a municipality of 1,231 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron Saint John the Baptist.
Until 1947 the village was called Aspra Sabina. It took its new name from Casperia, the Sabine town Virgil lists in the seventh book of the Aeneid, which the Renaissance had placed here to ennoble the origins of the place; but the council resolution also gives the practical reason: letters ended up in Aspra near Bagheria, in Sicily, or in Ascrea, close by.
Aspra behaved like a small state. In 1285 it divided the land among the families of the village with one clause: the shares of houses that died out would come back to the comune. With neighbouring Caprignano it was real war: having bought the castle, the men of Aspra stormed it and in 1307 levelled it, and the lawsuit that followed condemned them heavily.
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Bellagio and mid-lake Como 📍 Bellagio · 8.0 km Positioned at the fork of Lake Como, Bellagio combines Celtic and Roman history with a spectacular alpine landscape. Villa Melzi d'Eril 📍 Bellagio · 10 km The lakeside garden of Napoleon's duke, with azaleas and a Moorish kiosk. Villa Serbelloni Rockefeller 📍 Bellagio · 12 km The villa on the point of Bellagio, now a Rockefeller Foundation study centre. basilica di San Giacomo 📍 Bellagio · 12 km Bellagio's Romanesque basilica, baroque for two centuries then restored. duomo di Como 📍 Como · 13 km Como Cathedral, founded in 1396, featuring Late Gothic architecture, 16th-century paintings, and fine tapestries. Tempio Voltiano 📍 Como · 13 km A Neoclassical lakeside museum in Como dedicated to Alessandro Volta's scientific discoveries.