Patron saint festival In 314 days
Feast of Saint Bartholomew
📅 Every year, on 25 August
On 25 August Bojano celebrates Saint Bartholomew the apostle, in the co-cathedral whose crypt holds a Norman apse built over a spring.
Legend says the young Sabines who set out for the ver sacrum followed an ox, the animal sacred to Mamers: it stopped to drink at the springs of the Biferno, and there they founded Bovaianum. The name comes from the ox.
Bojano was the capital of the Pentri. Around 662 a group of Bulgars settled here, fleeing the Avars, and Paul the Deacon, a century later, wrote that they still spoke their own language. In the eleventh century the Norman Raoul de Moulins made it the capital of his county: from that name, they say, comes the name of Molise. The earthquake of 1805 flattened the town; the 7,946 residents live at the foot of the Matese.
The Bojano guide
What to see 4
concattedrale di San Bartolomeo · Eremo di Sant'Egidio · chiesa di San Biagio and 1 more
Where to stay 24
24 places to stay · top rated: Il rifugio del cuore 10.0 · Casale Vista Mutria 10.0
Events & festivals 1
Next up: Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Wednesday 25 August
Getting there
Nearest airport: Napoli Capodichino, 68 km away
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What to see in Bojano
concattedrale di San Bartolomeo A walled-up Gothic doorway, a crypt under the altar and a spring of living water below. 
Eremo di Sant'Egidio The Matese hermitage in the beech wood, a stop for travellers crossing the range. 
chiesa di San Biagio A dedication to wool carders, a Roman epigraph in the wall and three frescoes by Romeo Musa. 
chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo Built with stones from a Roman temple of Bacchus, its reliefs still visible in the walls. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Bojano
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Bojano, but an easy day trip away.
Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 21 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Ponte Leproso 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman bridge over the Sabato where the Via Appia entered Benevento, rebuilt in 1712; UNESCO site. Basilica del Corpus Domini 📍 Maddaloni · 17 km Maddaloni's main church, with a high altar designed by Luigi Vanvitelli and panels by Pompeo Landolfo. basilica della Madonna delle Grazie 📍 Benevento · 17 km Neoclassical Greek-cross basilica to the patron Madonna of Benevento, with a Franciscan convent. teatro romano di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Roman theatre inaugurated under Hadrian between 125 and 128, with a 98-metre cavea; still used for shows. duomo di Benevento 📍 Benevento · 17 km Cathedral rebuilt after its destruction in 1943, keeping the Romanesque façade, bell tower and ancient crypt.