Patron saint festival In 272 days
Feast of Saint Anacletus
📅 Every year, on 13 July
On 13 July Belmonte del Sannio, a municipality of 810 inhabitants in the province of Isernia, celebrates its patron Saint Anacletus (Sant'Anacleto).
Belmonte was Abruzzese for six hundred years: until 1807 it belonged to Abruzzo Citeriore, then the Napoleonic reorganisation handed it to Molise, and the del Sannio came after unification. It is still linked to Abruzzo by a bridge over the Sente, one of the highest in Europe.
At colle Sant'Angelo, outside the village, there is a stone tomb which the inscriptions call that of Ovius Paccius: the priest who, Livy tells us, made the Samnite warriors swear their oath before battle. In the old village there remain a round Lombard tower of the ninth century and the palace the Caracciolo raised on top of the castle. There are 810 residents.
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chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.