Patron saint festival In 55 days
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
📅 Every year, on 8 December
On 8 December Portula celebrates its patroness, the Immaculate Conception; the municipal territory hosts the Santuario della Novareia.
Portula is named after a door: the village stands at the crossing point between two valleys, the Valsessera and the Triverese, and the coat of arms confirms it, with a door drawn on the shield. The comune did not grow by itself. It was set up on 24 October 1627 by a foundation treaty signed by Carlo Emanuele of Savoy, and the parish followed a year later, on 10 October 1628.
The southern, more populated side lies under the Rossiglione knoll, crowned by its sanctuary: an octagon of stone and brick, with an arcaded porch on brick columns and a lantern on top. To the north the ground climbs into the upper Valsessera.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Portula, 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.