Patron saint festival In 299 days
Feast of Saint Lawrence
📅 Every year, on 10 August
On 10 August Toffia, a municipality of 1,002 inhabitants in the province of Rieti, celebrates its patron Saint Lawrence (san Lorenzo).
For centuries Toffia was two villages. The lower part belonged to the Orsini, who built there the palace that is now the town hall; the upper part, where Santa Maria Nova was later raised, belonged to the Colonna: two portions wholly separate and independent of each other. The name may come from the tufa, tophium, the hard rock of the spur the village is planted on.
The church of San Lorenzo was already there in the tenth century, and after the Saracen raids it was made a cathedral: seat of the bishop of Foronovo and second see of the Sabina. At the foot of the hill, at Cerreto, stood a Bronze Age settlement now identified with Suna, city of the Aborigines: and the forty stadia Dionysius of Halicarnassus counts from Suna to Suesbula still come out right, a little over seven kilometres.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Voghera · 7.0 km The fourteenth-century Visconti castle in Voghera, long a prison, with frescoes of the Muses attributed to Bramantino. Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Voghera · 7.4 km The Lombard Gothic church of the Dominicans in Voghera, with fifteen rosary chapels, now Franciscan. Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 20 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 21 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 21 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site.