Patron saint festival In 46 days
Saint Andrew the Apostle, patron of Vulci
📅 Every year, on 30 November
Canino celebrates Saint Andrew the Apostle on 30 November.
Canino has 5,270 inhabitants in the Maremma of Lazio, with the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci partly inside its own territory. Two men who weighed on European history are attached to this village. The first was born here on 28 February 1468: Alessandro Farnese, who would become Pope Paul III. The second arrived much later and stayed: Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother and prince of Canino and Musignano, who lived here and is buried with his family in the collegiate church.
Vignola, the architect who built the Farnese their villa at Caprarola, also designed the Farnese fountain of this village, which has a twelve-sided plan. Down towards the Fiora, instead, stands the castello dell'Abbadia, raised right against a Roman bridge that they call here the rainbow bridge, thrown across the gorge in which the river runs; and that same river now divides Canino from Montalto di Castro. The village is known for two things that grow in its fields: the canina olive, whose oil carries a protected designation, and the green asparagus, sweeter and less fibrous than most, so much so that it can be eaten raw.
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🍝 The flavours of Canino
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 Canino
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Canino, but an easy day trip away.
loggia e Odeo Cornaro 📍 Padua · 100 m Loggia and Odeo built by Alvise Cornaro in Padua in the early 16th century, now civic museums. basilica di Sant'Antonio di Padova 📍 Padua · 300 m Padua made him a saint in under a year, and his little church is still inside the basilica. chiesa di San Francesco Grande 📍 Padua · 300 m The church willed by a Paduan couple, finished by the widow alone. Orto botanico di Padova 📍 Padua · 400 m It was made against fraud: to tell the genuine medicinal plants from the fakes. chiesa di Santa Sofia 📍 Padua · 500 m The most eastern-looking Romanesque apse in the Veneto, in Padua's oldest church. Tomba di Antenore 📍 Padua · 500 m Tomb of Antenor in Padua, built in the 13th century for the city's legendary Trojan founder.