Patron saint festival In 258 days
Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle
📅 Every year, on 29 June
On 29 June Casalvolone, a municipality of 867 inhabitants in the province of Novara, celebrates its patron Saint Peter the Apostle.
Casalvolone carries the Latin Casale Vallonis in its name, and through the Middle Ages its history is the abbey's. The monastery first appears in 975, held by Benedictines; when they left, in 1169, Cistercians came from Morimondo. A later document credits the foundation to three local brothers, Ardizzone, Enrico and Tommaso di Casalvolone.
The abbey then faded: its goods were confiscated under Napoleon, in 1819 the complex passed into private hands, and the abbey church, reduced to an oratory, came down in the early twentieth century. What survives is the pieve of San Pietro beside the cemetery, which served as the parish: walls of river cobbles and brick, low apses and a bell tower with paired windows.
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Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.