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Saint Firmus, patron of the Spina Verde Regional Park
📅 Every year, on 9 August
San Fermo della Battaglia celebrates Saint Firmus on 9 August, in the shrine dedicated to him together with Saint Lawrence.
On this spot stood the village of Nullate, whose -ate ending suggests a Celtic foundation; between the tenth and eleventh centuries the name became Vergosa, and Vergosa the municipality remained until 1911, when it took the name of the battle fought there. In 1652 the community had bought itself out of feudal tenure, paying in instalments still running in the eighteenth century. Since 2017, after a referendum, it has absorbed neighbouring Cavallasca.
On 27 May 1859 Giuseppe Garibaldi's Cacciatori delle Alpi clashed here with the Austrian garrison of Como under general Karl von Urban: part of it was posted at the church of San Fermo, and the sanctuary's bell tower served as a lookout. The fight was short and hard; the Austrians fell back on Como and abandoned the city soon after. A monument on via de Cristoforis marks where captain Carlo De Cristoforis fell with thirteen other volunteers. The sanctuary and that monument are also the town's coat of arms.
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Outside San Fermo della Battaglia, but an easy day trip away.
Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.