Patron saint festival In 322 days
Feast of Sant'Egidio
📅 Every year, on 1 September
On 1 September Camerata Nuova, a municipality of 460 inhabitants in the province of Rome, celebrates its patron Sant'Egidio.
The name comes from the camerae, the houses partly cut into the rock of which the old village was made, and as Camorata it appears for the first time in the Subiaco register of the eleventh century. In 1096 the castle, which the sources call Rocca in Camerata, was given to the abbey of Montecassino by the countess of Carsoli Aldegrina, widow of the count of the Marsi Rainaldo, who had died during the first crusade; the following year Pope Urban II confirmed it among the abbot's holdings.
Today's village is new in earnest. On 9 January 1859 a fire destroyed old Camerata, perched on a limestone crag four hundred metres higher up, and the inhabitants rebuilt it lower down, at the mouth of the valley: up there the ruins remain. The new village was called Pio Camerata, in honour of Pius IX, until 1870, and in 1872 it took the name it bears now. Within its territory stands Monte Autore, the highest peak in the metropolitan city of Rome.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.