Patron saint festival In 305 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Monacilioni, a municipality of 553 inhabitants in the province of Campobasso, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
The landslide of 1961 took away half the village. Corso Umberto I still marks the border: on one side the lived-in houses, on the other what people here call case spallate, the ruins of the old centre, with the old church reduced to a piece of façade and its entrance steps. The new church, built in 1958, is rationalist and stands on safer ground.
The name comes from Castro Monachi Leonis, a chapel dedicated to a Benedictine saint, and the coat of arms turns it into a pun: a monk holding a rampant lion by its paws. The village, 553 residents, looks down over the Tappino valley.
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Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 700 m Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 12 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 15 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Celia peuceta 📍 Bari · 17 km Ancient Caelia, the Peucetian city that Bari beat with its harbour. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 24 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 23 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture.