Patron saint festival In 67 days
Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 21 December
On 21 December Torrita Tiberina celebrates its patron Saint Thomas the Apostle, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
The name comes from the towers: Turritula, «the little towers», appears as early as 747, in the donation by which Carloman gave these lands to the Benedictines of Sant'Andrea in Flumine. They were signal towers; in the twelfth century the Savelli turned them into a fortress with walls, moat and drawbridge, and the lower part of that palace belongs to the comune today.
In the village cemetery Aldo Moro lies buried; he was fond of Torrita and used to come and stay here. The church of San Tommaso Apostolo was the castle chapel and holds canvases attributed to Pinturicchio and to Carlo Maratta. The village sits inside a bend of the Tiber, in the Nazzano reserve; and in 1902, while the bridge at Montorso was being built, there was unrest among the workmen.
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Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.