Patron saint festival In 322 days
Feast of Sant'Egidio
📅 Every year, on 1 September
On 1 September Cellere, a municipality of 1,230 inhabitants in the province of Viterbo, celebrates its patron Sant'Egidio.
On the coat of arms of Cellere there is a doe: it is the doe of Saint Giles the abbot, the patron, who according to legend lived as a hermit in a wood near Arles and fed on the milk of a doe that kept him company. The church dedicated to the saint does not stand in the village but down in a valley, a short way off, and is the work of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
The place belonged to the Farnese and ended up in the duchy of Castro, whose fortunes it followed until the duchy was wiped out in 1649; of Farnese rule there remains the castle that looms over the houses. Back with the Church, Cellere stayed there until the Risorgimento, and the entry recalls two of its citizens among the patriots of unification, Tommaso and Francesco Mazzariggi.
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🍝 The flavours of Cellere
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 Cellere
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cellere, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. castello di Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times.