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Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Sciolze, a municipality of 1,513 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Turin, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
In Piedmont people used to say “Va a Siosse!”, go to Sciolze, to send somebody to hell. The phrase, now out of use, is probably explained by the death sentences once carried out at the castle; another guess points to the distance from Turin and the steep, difficult roads.
The castle, named after San Severino, still sits on top of the hill above the houses: a long block of bare brick, the tower rising among the trees and a great wall holding up the terrace. The church held to be the oldest in Sciolze is Santa Lucia del Fagnour.
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Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 700 m Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 12 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 15 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Celia peuceta 📍 Bari · 17 km Ancient Caelia, the Peucetian city that Bari beat with its harbour. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 24 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 23 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture.