Patron saint festival In 245 days
Feast of Saint Olympius
📅 Every year, on 16 June
On 16 June Lenta, a municipality of 878 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron Saint Olympius (sant'Olimpio).
Lenta speaks mostly through its buildings. The pieve of Santo Stefano, in a mown meadow, has walls of river pebbles in even courses banded with brick, apses ringed by small arches and a square bell tower with paired windows.
The village keeps the church of San Pietro, the bell tower, the ricetto and the castle of the Benedictine nuns, once a convent; the territory touches the Baragge nature reserve. Among the rice fields, inside a military compound, the army stacks nearly three thousand retired armoured vehicles, one of the largest collections in Europe.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Lenta, 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.