Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Pareto, a municipality of 602 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
The name of Pareto goes back to an old root meaning rock, stone, slope: the village set on a hill. It entered the Aleramic March and in 1142 became a fief of the Del Carretto, but its real ties, of language and of trade, were always with Savona and the Ligurian coast: until the first of January 1880 Pareto belonged to the province of Genoa, not to Alessandria.
Above the houses stand the parish church of San Pietro and the castle, now a private home, in whose cellars local legend hides a golden calf. Beside the church, the seventeenth-century oratory changed trade: after the Second World War it became a cinema and theatre.
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Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.