Patron saint festival In 191 days
Saint George, patron of Loro Piceno
📅 Every year, on 23 April
Loro Piceno celebrates Saint George on 23 April, in the Borgo San Lorenzo.
The name comes from the Latin laurus, the laurel: the place was called Castrum Lauri, the castle of the laurel. That there were people here long before the castle is told by a funerary stele with Picene characters, found in 1943 and today kept in the national archaeological museum of Ancona; and at the place called Vignali-Bàgnere remain the traces of the nymphaeum of the Bàgnere, of the end of the third century before Christ. The castle, originally, belonged to the Benedictine monks of the abbey of San Clemente a Casauria; in 1101 three brothers, Odemondo, Tresedio and Rimo, passed it to the bishop of Teramo, and later it went to the Cistercians of the nearby abbey of Fiastra. In February 1299 Loro became a free comune, within the orbit of Fermo.
The great building that in the village they call the Brunforte castle is, more properly, the palace of Gualtiero. Around it are the church of Corpus Domini with the Dominican convent, Santa Maria di Piazza, which gives onto the main square, and the church and convent of San Francesco d'Assisi with their cloister. The town hall was designed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the architect Pietro Augustoni, while Porta Pia was built in 1847 and dedicated to pope Pius IX. What Loro Piceno is known for, though, is not a building but a bottle: here they make vino cotto, cooked wine, and they make a quality of it that is recognised well beyond the borders of the Marche. Among the traditional crafts there remain weaving and the working of leather.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Loro Piceno, 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.