Patron saint festival In 274 days
Feast of Saint Quiricus
📅 Every year, on 15 July
On 15 July Lapedona, a municipality of 1,175 inhabitants in the province of Fermo, celebrates its patron Saint Quiricus (San Quirico).
When, between the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries, the castle was moved to the top of the hill, the inhabitants of all the villages around moved into it: and each group settled, with its church and its houses, in the quarter that faced the place they had come from. The first settlement had grown around the church of San Quirico, which belonged to the monks of Fonte Avellana; the patron saint is still he, a child saint.
Of the walls two gates remain: Porta da Sole and Porta Marina, the latter with swallow-tail battlements. In the church of San Nicolò, now deconsecrated and used for concerts, there is an altarpiece by Simone De Magistris of 1596; in San Lorenzo an organ by Gaetano Callido of 1784. The fountain in the square is of 1900, when the water supply arrived.
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Outside Lapedona, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Marco 📍 Rovereto · 5.3 km The parish church of Marco di Rovereto, documented from 1180 and rebuilt after the First World War. Biotopo Lavini di Marco 📍 Rovereto · 6.8 km The landslide from Monte Zugna, with dinosaur trackways discovered in 1990 and two small lakes. chiesa di San Floriano 📍 Rovereto · 8.5 km The old mother church of Lizzana, parent of Rovereto's churches, with two sixteenth-century frescoes on the façade. Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km Rovereto's bell, cast from the bronze of every belligerent's cannon. sacrario militare di Castel Dante 📍 Rovereto · 9.4 km The First World War ossuary on the hill above Rovereto, with about twenty thousand fallen of several nations. Castel Lizzana 📍 Rovereto · 9.0 km The scant remains of the Castelbarco castle above Lizzana, destroyed by the Venetians in 1439, in the memorial grounds.