Patron saint festival In 256 days
Saint Peter, patron of the land of the Orba stream
📅 Every year, on 29 June
Capriata d'Orba celebrates Saint Peter on 29 June, in the church dedicated to him.
The village first appears in writing in a deed of sale of 973: the son of the marquis Ildeprando hands over a few places to one Roprando, and Capriata is among them. Much later its capture, in 1625, opened the war between Savoy and Genoa.
The village is one of the main centres of the Novese, the strip of southern Piedmont named after Novi Ligure. Above the houses stand the ruins of the Castelvecchio, and stretches of the town walls and bastions are still visible. The commune was called simply Capriata: the Orba, the river on whose right bank it sits, entered the name in 1863.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.