Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Piatto celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the municipal territory lies close to the Oasi Zegna nature park.
The name has nothing to do with flat ground: Piatto is all hill and mountain, from 309 metres up to 1620. Piatlin was an apple variety of the Valle Elvo, and the village is named after it; the arms agree, with a silver cornucopia spilling fruit and three gold bees above.
Until 1624 Piatto was part of Bioglio; the fief, though, had belonged to the Avogadro di Quaregna since the Middle Ages, and they built a fortified house here. There is no single centre: twenty-five hamlets, and the town hall stands at Fretta. The parish church is plastered white, and its brick bell tower carries two sundials below the belfry.
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tomba del Tuffatore 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 14 km The only Greek painting of the classical age to survive: a man diving into space. Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Three names and a single ending: the Greek city that the water slowly ate. Temples of Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 19 km Three Doric temples standing since the sixth century BCE, and the Tomb of the Diver. Museo archeologico nazionale di Paestum 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The temples' museum, with the Tomb of the Diver and the metopes of Hera's sanctuary. Tempio di Nettuno 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km The almost complete Doric temple, whose only wrong part is Neptune's name. Tempio di Atena 📍 Capaccio Paestum · 16 km Paestum's most refined temple, used as a church in the middle ages.