Patron saint festival In 298 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Colle di Tora, a municipality of 384 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
Until 1864 this village was called Collepiccolo and stood on the banks of a river, the Tora. Then it changed its name, and a few decades later the landscape changed too: in 1939 the dam was built that barred the Turano to make electricity and to protect the Rieti plain from floods, and the river became a lake. The most fertile land of the valley went under water, and the village found itself on the water: what today is a peninsula, a strip of land running out into the lake, used to be dry ground in the middle of the country.
That landscape has brought the cinema here. In 1972 Bitto Albertini shot «Il santo patrono» in the village, with Lucio Dalla in the lead; in 2009 Francesca Archibugi set part of «Questione di cuore» here, with Kim Rossi Stuart, Micaela Ramazzotti, Paolo Villaggio and Antonio Albanese; and in between, in 2001, some scenes of a Rai television series were filmed here as well.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Colle di Tora, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.