Patron saint festival In 111 days
Feast of Saint Agatha
📅 Every year, on 5 February
On 5 February Sant'Agata Fossili celebrates its patroness Saint Agatha, after whom the town's church is named, restored and decorated in 1905-1906.
Sant'Agata Fossili lies in the Tortonese hills, in the Ligurian-Piedmontese pre-Apennines. It grew around a chapel to Saint Agatha, who gave the village its name; the chapel is documented only from the thirteenth century, the settlement first appears in 1277. For centuries, though, the place that mattered was Podigliano, now a hamlet, land of the bishop of Tortona and first capital of the domain called the Vescovato.
In the fifteenth century bishop Barbavara won tax exemptions from the Visconti on account of the barren soil; vines arrived only in the second half of the nineteenth century, pushed by the archpriest Corazza. The second name is from 1871, after the many fossils the fields turned up.
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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.