Patron saint festival In 329 days
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, patron of the Alessandria town
📅 Every year, on 8 September
Viguzzolo celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 8 September.
The arms show a young man wrestling a lion and gripping it by the jaws. Many take him for Hercules, but he is more likely Samson: in the Book of Judges he kills the lion bare-handed by tearing its jaws apart, while Hercules had strangled his. The motto of the Squarzoni, the family the blazon comes from, bears this out: De forti dulcedo, "out of the strong came forth sweetness".
The monastery of the Annunziata is fifteenth-century and housed Augustinian nuns; pope Clement XIV suppressed it in 1770, and today it holds the town hall, the schools and the library. Earlier still, when the Sforza came, the town was forced into a public submission under threat of destruction.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Viguzzolo, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.