Patron saint festival In 53 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Provvidenti celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari; the small Molise town also hosts the MAACK, an open-air contemporary art museum.
The name comes from the pits: the gully below was always the right place to dig grain stores, and those who came to put their harvest away called it Provvidentiae. Legend raises the stakes and has the village standing on the granary of Gerione, the Italic town where, according to Polybius, Hannibal camped.
In 1911, with farming going well, Provvidenti reached 1,008 inhabitants. Then war and emigration — many to Montreal, which still has an association of Provvidenti families — emptied it out: there are 122 people now, the smallest comune in the province of Campobasso.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Provvidenti, but an easy day trip away.
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.