Patron saint festival In 73 days
Feast of Saint Stephen
📅 Every year, on 26 December
On 26 December Castelsantangelo sul Nera celebrates its patron Saint Stephen; the municipal territory preserves the Monastero di San Liberatore.
In 1255 the last feudal lord of the castle made an unusual bargain: he gave up his property and all his feudal rights in exchange for the office of podestà, and so the village passed under the free comune of Visso. In 1522 the men of the castle beat Norcia in the battle of the Pian Perduto, fought over the pastures, although the Norcians outnumbered them ten to one: it was a shepherd-poet from here who told the story in verse.
The river Nera rises here, and the Valnerina begins. Independence from Visso came late, granted by law in the twentieth century and only carried out some years later; the «sul Nera» in the name is more recent still. In October 2016 the earthquakes, with their epicentre in this very comune, destroyed almost the whole of the old centre and of the outlying villages.
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chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 12 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. basilica cattedrale di San Martino 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's cathedral, rebuilt by Tullio Lombardo in the sixteenth century, with Juvarra's bell tower. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 14 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 14 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 16 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 16 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt.