Patron saint festival In 268 days
Feast of Saint Victoria
📅 Every year, on 9 July
On 9 July Pisoniano, a municipality of 803 inhabitants in the province of Rome, celebrates its patroness Saint Victoria (Santa Vittoria).
The name comes from the Pisos, the Roman family, and in particular from Lucius Calpurnius Piso, who is said to have had a villa here. But for a while it was believed to come from peas — pisus in Latin — and because of that mistake, in the years after 1927, the comune put a branch of a pea plant on its coat of arms.
Once the etymology had been shown to be wrong, the arms were made again, and in those years the lictor's bundle ended up in the middle of them; the present ones carry three mountains, the blue band of the Giovenzano and an ear of wheat. In the village there is a hemp museum, and on the fifth of August, for the Madonna of the Snow, artificial snow is fired from cannon.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.