Patron saint festival In 297 days
Saint Donatus and the Byzantine Tower
📅 Every year, on 7 August
Biccari celebrates Saint Donatus on 7 August.
The highest peak in Puglia is in the territory of Biccari: Monte Cornacchia, one thousand one hundred and fifty-one metres. A little lower, above seven hundred metres, the highest Neolithic settlement in the region has been found. The village itself, though, was born of the Byzantines, around the cylindrical tower that guarded the via Traiana, and the name Vicari appears in a deed of August 1054.
After the Normans, a certain Pagano took Biccari and wanted to make it a town with a bishop of his own: he put on the seat a priest named Benedict, whom Pope Alexander II deposed with a bull of 1067. From Biccari came also the DePalma brothers: Ralph, born in 1882, became one of the strongest racing drivers in America.
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Near Biccari
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Biccari, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Donato 📍 Massimino · 9.3 km The parish church of San Donato in the hamlet of San Vincenzo, baroque, built between 1818 and 1820. monastero di Santo Stefano 📍 Millesimo · 14 km Baroque church and fifteenth-century cloister, Cistercian until 1802, now inside a private castle. castello di Millesimo 📍 Millesimo · 15 km Dismantled in 1553 so the French could not take it, the thirteenth-century keep is open again. Castello di Cairo Montenotte 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km The ruins of the Del Carretto castle above Cairo Montenotte, in the upper Bormida valley. Ferrania Film Museum 📍 Cairo Montenotte · 20 km Six themed rooms in Palazzo Scarampi for the plant that made Ferrania a name in world cinema. castello di Dego 📍 Dego · 24 km Ruins at Cua, above the Val Bormida, and a Napoleonic path that climbs up to them.