Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Castel San Pietro Romano, a municipality of 855 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Rome, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
The fortress was built in 970 by Stefania of the counts of Tusculum, sister of pope John XIII, and inside it stood a round tower that served as a prison: through it passed Jacopone da Todi, who composed the Stabat Mater here, and in 1268 Conradin of Swabia, before being taken to Naples and beheaded.
In 1953 Luigi Comencini shot Pane, amore e fantasia here, and in the film the village is called Sagliena; then came the sequels and a dozen other pictures, so that the square is still recognisable. Gina Lollobrigida, who acted in that film, was made an honorary citizen in 2018, the village's first.
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Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 11 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 11 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 12 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 12 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.