Patron saint festival In 193 days
Feast of Saint Mark
📅 Every year, on 25 April
On 25 April Petriolo, a municipality of 1,977 inhabitants in the province of Macerata, celebrates its patron Saint Mark.
The name most probably comes from praetoriolum, the small villa of a praetor of Urbs Salvia; others prefer the sandstone, or the sulphurous springs so oily that people ended up talking of petroleum. In 1264 king Manfred, furious that the sons of the lord of Petriolo would not stay Ghibelline, ordered the castle destroyed and the inhabitants deported to Montolmo: for reasons still unknown, the deportation never took place.
On the round tower of the walls there is a stone with the words «FIRMI-PETRIOLUM» and the date 1529, which may mark not its building but the year the castle came back under Fermo; in 1782 the new town hall took away its roof. In 1942 a women's internment camp was set up in a country villa of this comune.
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Places to see within 25 km
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Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 2.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. castello di Castellamonte 📍 Castellamonte · 16 km Seven gates in the curtain wall and a fief split into 271 points of jurisdiction. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Bard Fortress 📍 Bard · 19 km Rebuilt in the 19th century, this imposing Savoy fortress is a masterpiece of military engineering in the Aosta Valley. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times.