Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Tryphon
📅 Every year, on 10 November
On 10 November Onano celebrates its patron Saint Tryphon; the town is also home to the Castello di Santa Cristina.
Onano reads the same both ways: it is one of the five Italian comuni with a palindromic name. The name may come from an Aulus or Aunus, the first owner of the estate; the Casale Aulanum appears in 823, when a Lombard noble gave it to the abbey on Monte Amiata. The lentils, the thing the village is known for, are already in the community's statute as reformed in the sixteenth century.
The Monaldeschi castle everyone here calls Palazzo Madama, from the French title given to Carlotta Denham Bousquet, who held it in emphyteusis. Garibaldi slept there, and there the young Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII, spent his summers, his grandfather having left Onano for Rome. And Saint Columba, the village's patron, still wears the dress the singer Lina Cavalieri gave her.
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Onano 1
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🍝 The flavours of Onano
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 Onano
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Onano, but an easy day trip away.
Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.