Patron saint festival In 303 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Arlena di Castro, a municipality of 886 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
By the middle of the fifteen hundreds the village was almost empty, reduced to a roccaccia. It was made again by cardinal Alessandro Farnese the Younger: in 1573 he brought in some families from Allerona, near Orvieto, and to persuade them he gave them land and exemption from taxes. Until 1649 Arlena followed the fortunes of the Duchy of Castro.
On the sixth of February 1971 the Tuscania earthquake had its epicentre halfway between Tuscania and Arlena. Parliament answered with a law that released from military service the young men of the two villages who volunteered to rebuild them. The necropolis of Ararella, meanwhile, had for years been the town rubbish dump.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Arlena di Castro 1
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🍝 The flavours of Arlena di Castro
Orvieto white DOC wine from the hills between Terni and Viterbo
A white wine carved into Etruscan tufa history, toasted by Garibaldi's Thousand: Orvieto has held Denominazione di Origine Controllata status since 1971.
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Near Arlena di Castro
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Arlena di Castro, but an easy day trip away.
abbazia di Santa Maria al Porale 📍 Ronco Scrivia · 9.9 km Founded by Cistercians in 1208 for pilgrims on the Via Postumia, today a chapel with a fresco of 1446. Castello di Francavilla Bisio 📍 Francavilla Bisio · 10 km The medieval castle of Francavilla Bisio: towers, moat and six centuries of Spinola, Grillo and Guasco. Castello di Lercaro 📍 Ovada · 11 km A Lercaro fortified villa of 1570, given to the town in 1872 as a hospice, now a ruin chiesa di Nostra Signora Assunta 📍 Ovada · 12 km Sober baroque inspired by Genoa, with twin bell towers and Pietro Ivaldi's vault. chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie 📍 Ovada · 12 km Founded by Dominicans in 1481, with a high altar brought from Genoa in 1690 chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Ovada · 12 km A plague vow of 1631, first stone in 1640, and an almost total rebuild after the 1935 fire