Patron saint festival In 255 days
Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Quattordio, a municipality of 1,668 inhabitants in the province of Alessandria, celebrates its patrons Saints Peter and Paul.
The name comes from a milestone: fourteen Roman miles from Hasta, ancient Asti, Quattuordecimum in Latin. The stone is thought to have stood in front of the parish church, and the town's arms still show it with the figure XIV. Quattordio appears in an official document in 1159, among the forty-six villages that Barbarossa, having subdued Asti, undertook to hold under his authority.
Palazzo Olivazzi closes a huge farm court of bare brick, known as Cascina Palazzo. The stable of seven vaults, with the hayloft above, went up in 1844 with walls over a metre thick: to fire those bricks, the story goes, a kiln was built inside the courtyard, with local clay.
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Castelli Romani 📍 Albano Laziale · 8.3 km The protected area of the Alban Hills: Lakes Albano and Nemi, Tusculum and chestnut woods on the old volcano. Cattedrale di San Pancrazio 📍 Albano Laziale · 10 km The cathedral of Albano Laziale, with its eighteenth-century peperino façade and remains of Leo III's basilica. Museo Civico 📍 Albano Laziale · 11 km Albano's museum in Villa Ferrajoli: from the volcano of the Alban Hills to a pile-dwelling village and Pompey's villa. Chiesa di Santa Maria della Stella 📍 Albano Laziale · 11 km The Savelli church above the catacombs of San Senatore, in Albano, next to the historic cemetery. Castel Savello 📍 Albano Laziale · 12 km The ruins of the Savelli stronghold on an isolated hill below Albano, razed in 1435 and never rebuilt. Hadrian's Villa 📍 Tivoli · 15 km Spanning over 120 hectares, this 2nd-century imperial residence is a masterpiece of Roman architecture and UNESCO site.