Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Matthew
📅 Every year, on 21 September
On 21 September Pietrabruna celebrates Saint Matthew; the village's main church is dedicated to him together with Saint Gregory.
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Pietrabruna lived for a long time on lavender: it was gathered on the slopes and distilled. Today anemones have taken its place, and they go to the flower market of Sanremo. The village cake is the stroscia, a rustic tart made with taggiasca olive oil, lemon and a drop of white vermouth.
On 14 December 1944 the Nazi-fascists attacked the hamlet of Torre Paponi during a sweep: two men killed and a woman mortally wounded. Two days later they came back, surrounded the village, shelled it and went in killing twenty-five people; then they looted it and set it on fire. The population is 541.
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Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 21 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Ponte Leproso 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman bridge over the Sabato where the Via Appia entered Benevento, rebuilt in 1712; UNESCO site. Basilica del Corpus Domini 📍 Maddaloni · 17 km Maddaloni's main church, with a high altar designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and panels by Pompeo Landolfo. basilica della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Benevento · 17 km Neoclassical Greek-cross basilica to the patron Madonna of Benevento, with a Franciscan convent. teatro romano di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman theatre inaugurated under Hadrian between 125 and 128, with a 98-metre cavea; still used for shows. duomo di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Cathedral rebuilt after its destruction in 1943, keeping the Romanesque façade, bell tower and ancient crypt.