Patron saint festival In 304 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Petrella Salto, a municipality of 1,212 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
The name comes from petra, the stony ground. In the fortress on top, in 1598, one of the most famous crimes of the sixteenth century took place: the murder of count Francesco Cenci, arranged by his daughter Beatrice. The village has been in Lazio only since 1927: for more than six centuries it was Abruzzo, in the district of Cittaducale.
Two women from here left their mark. Filippa Mareri, born in the castle of Borgo San Pietro, ran from a family that refused her the convent and lived three years in a cave above Piagge, until in 1228 her brothers gave her the castle and she brought her companions there, under the rule Francis had given to Clare. Cleonice Tomassetti, a schoolteacher who had moved to Milan and became a partisan courier, was the only woman among the forty-three shot at Fondotoce in 1944.
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Cappella di villa Mirabello 📍 Monza · 2.9 km Chapel of villa Mirabello in the Parco di Monza: the Durini villa of 1656-1675, oldest in the park. Villa Reale 📍 Monza · 4.1 km Villa Reale of Monza, Piermarini's neoclassical palace begun in 1777, home to Habsburgs, Napoleon and Savoy. Chiesa di Santa Maria al Carrobiolo 📍 Monza · 4.8 km Church of Santa Maria al Carrobiolo in Monza, with works by Peterzano and Moncalvo, vault frescoed 1707-1709. Chiesa di San Pietro Martire 📍 Monza · 4.8 km San Pietro Martire in Monza, 14th-century church for the Dominican killed in 1252, with a 15th-century cloister. Santuario del Santo Crocifisso 📍 Desio · 5.1 km Desio's Neo-Gothic sanctuary, home to a sixteenth-century crucifix that was crowned in 1948. Duomo di Monza 📍 Monza · 5.2 km Monza Cathedral, founded by Queen Theodelinda around 595, home of the Iron Crown.