Patron saint festival In 329 days
Feast of Santa Maria della Scala
📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Castelvisconti, a municipality of 330 inhabitants in the province of Cremona, celebrates its patroness Santa Maria della Scala.
The village was called Pratobisio, and it owes its present name to the Visconti: in the fourteenth century Regina della Scala, Bernabò's wife, gave it to the canons of Santa Maria della Scala, the collegiate church in Milan that stood where the theatre stands today. When that church was pulled down to make room for La Scala, part of its furnishings came up here.
They are the great bell, the red marble stoups, the walnut choir stalls, the wrought-iron gate with the Scaliger arms, the wooden statues of the Assumption and of saints Anne and Veronica. They stand in the parish church that the canons began in 1747 and opened in 1772, built high up to be safe from the floods of the Oglio.
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Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.