Patron saint festival In 297 days
Saint Donatus, patron of the land of the Forte della Consolata
📅 Every year, on 7 August
Demonte celebrates Saint Donatus on 7 August, in the church dedicated to him.
Demonte lies in the Stura valley and is one of the Occitan communes of Piedmont. In the eighteenth century it was fortified by Alessandro Vittorio Papacino, and on the Podio, a morainic hill outside the village, the Forte della Consolata went up: Napoleon destroyed it, and the ruins are what is left.
Under the German occupation the partisan Lorenzo Spada hid here the five members of a Jewish family from Ferrara and arranged and paid for their escape, which ended well on the night of the eighth of February 1944. Wounded in a firefight, he was arrested and hanged in the village square, which now bears his name; in 1974 Yad Vashem recognised him as Righteous Among the Nations. Lalla Romano was born here in 1906.
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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.