Patron saint festival In 310 days
Feast of San Bernardo
📅 Every year, on 20 August
On 20 August Roaschia, a municipality of 138 inhabitants in the province of Cuneo, celebrates its patron San Bernardo.
Roaschia lies at the bottom of a side valley of the Valle Gesso, shut in by sheer walls: cool in summer, hard in winter. Its people never all lived in the village but spread over fifty-two hamlets on the sunnier slopes, nearly all empty now. The town's arms say the rest: chequy silver and blue, a red eight-spoked wheel over an axe and a mace crossed in saltire, and the motto MONTES IN CIRCUITU EIUS, the mountains all around.
For generations this was a home of transhumant shepherds, who moved with flocks and families between the high pastures and the plain, and the frabosana-roaschina sheep still carries the village name. In a century depopulation took away 93% of the residents counted in 1911. Below the houses, where the limestone opens, lie the Grotte del Bandito, studied since the nineteenth century for cave-bear bones and now a nature reserve.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Roaschia, 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.