Patron saint festival In 257 days
Saint Peter, patron of the land of Canto Alto
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Sorisole celebrates Saint Peter on 29 June.
Where the name Sorisole comes from is unknown: Siliceolae, a place beside a paved road, has been suggested, as have the personal name Surridius and a super insulam marking the land north of the Isola Bergamasca; all remain guesses. The arms prefer another reading, that of the rising sun: three hills over a field, a towered castle on the middle one and the sun blazing behind, because from the village the sun comes up right behind the range that closes the territory. The oldest document naming the place is from 747, when the Lombard king Ratchis gave the priest Limenone land of the fundus of Sorisole.
Guelph and therefore Venetian, the community was held as a separate land, free of tolls, and its men, with those of Azzonica, formed the compagnia dei Bastazi, which unloaded ships in the port of Venice until the Republic fell. In 1479 Pope Sixtus IV granted the juspatronatus, the right to choose their own parish priest: the heads of households gave it up by a vote only in 1949. On 26 September 1944, at Petosino, militiamen of the Italian Social Republic killed eight partisans, five in the fields around the village and three outside the nursery school; a ninth victim was shot the next day.
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tomba del Tuffatore 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 14 km The only Greek painting of the classical age to survive: a man diving into space. Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Three names and a single ending: the Greek city that the water slowly ate. Temples of Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 19 km Three Doric temples standing since the sixth century BCE, and the Tomb of the Diver. Museo archeologico nazionale di Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The temples' museum, with the Tomb of the Diver and the metopes of Hera's sanctuary. Tempio di Nettuno 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The almost complete Doric temple, whose only wrong part is Neptune's name. Tempio di Atena 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Paestum's most refined temple, used as a church in the middle ages.