Patron saint festival In 112 days
Feast of Saint Blaise
📅 Every year, on 3 February
On 3 February Castelnuovo Belbo celebrates its patron Saint Blaise, to whom the town's church is dedicated.
Castelnuovo Belbo was long called Castelnuovo d'Incisa, after the marquisate it belonged to from the twelfth century. The name first appears in 1003, in a charter calling it «Castro Novo qui dicitur supra Relho»: new castle, nothing more. The Belbo, which runs through it, is the only watercourse of any weight in the territory.
The parish church of San Biagio is bare brick: a pediment at the centre, two scrolls at the sides, a frescoed lunette above the door. The town hall of 1877 opens an arcaded portico on the climbing main square. On 21 August 2000 the village was the epicentre of the southern Piedmont earthquake, and both buildings needed serious repair.
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Palazzo Ducale e Galleria Nazionale delle Marche 📍 Urbino · 9.3 km Federico's studiolo, 3.60 by 3.35 metres of inlay, and Piero della Francesca's Flagellation. Duomo di Urbino 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km The cathedral rebuilt by Valadier after the earthquakes, beside Federico da Montefeltro's Ducal Palace. Casa Santi 📍 Urbino · 9.0 km The house where Raphael was born in 1483, his father's workshop on the ground floor. Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista e Sant'Antonio abate 📍 Urbino · 9.2 km Urbino's oratory with the Salimbeni frescoes, a late gothic masterpiece. pieve di San Salvatore 📍 Rimini · 21 km Pieve di San Salvatore in Rimini, a Romanesque church on an ancient temple, with a plaque from 1318. Villa Caprile 📍 Pesaro · 23 km Seventeenth-century Baroque villa above Pesaro with an Italian garden and water games still working.