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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Prato della Valle 📍 Padua · 15 km At 90,000 square meters, this monumental elliptical square is one of Europe's largest, ringed by 78 stone statues. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 16 km Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 15 km It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. Villa Giusti 📍 Padua · 14 km Villa Giusti, Padua, where the armistice ending the First World War was signed on 3 November 1918. basilica di Santa Giustina 📍 Padua · 15 km The eight-domed abbey on the Prato della Valle: the tomb of Saint Luke and the Veronese on the altar. chiesa di Santa Croce 📍 Padua · 15 km Padua's only rococo church, designed by a Somascan father.