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Saint Felix, patron of the land of the Castello dei Roero
📅 Every year, on 30 August
Monticello d'Alba celebrates Saint Felix on 30 August.
The village sits on a small hill and takes its name from it; the coat of arms says so again, with a tree on the middle peak of a three-peaked mountain. The castle above it is still lived in: the Roero held it in fief from 1376, by will of pope Gregory XI, and never let it go.
In 1787, for the wedding of Francesco Gennaro Roero and Paola del Carretto, the castle was disarmed: the drawbridge taken away, the moat filled in and turned into a garden, large windows opened on the first floor. Around the round tower a grand double staircase was built to display the family's magnificence: an earthquake carried it off in 1881.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.