Patron saint festival In 290 days
Feast of San Germano
📅 Every year, on 31 July
On 31 July Pertengo, a municipality of 321 inhabitants in the province of Vercelli, celebrates its patron San Germano.
The arms of Pertengo are quarterly and gather the marks of those who held the place, among them the Tizzoni blazon: the second quarter carries three black brands enflamed red, bendwise one above the other. The Tizzoni built a country residence here in the seventeenth century; nothing of it survives. Below the shield, on a forked silver scroll, runs the motto Pro Te Teneo.
The village ties the origin of its name to that motto; another reading takes Pertengo to mean «property of Pert». The name appears in a document of 1152 by which Frederick Barbarossa granted the territory to the bishops of Vercelli, though the site was settled long before: Roman finds came to light at the end of the nineteenth century, among them a votive bronze now in the Museo Leone at Vercelli.
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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.