Patron saint festival In 304 days
Saint Roch, patron of Candela
📅 Every year, from 16 to 18 August
Candela celebrates Saint Roch from 16 to 18 August, with religious celebrations and musical events.
Here ends the drove road that comes from Pescasseroli: two hundred and eleven kilometres of grass track for the sheep coming down from Abruzzo. The town stands on two hills, between the Carapelle and the Ofanto. From 1531 to 1806 it belonged to the Doria, the Genoese family: Andrea Doria had been given it after the prince of Melfi was declared a traitor.
On 8 September 1902 the farm labourers were on strike. A cart of strike-breakers, escorted by carabinieri, set off a brawl; the soldiers fired on the crowd, and the peasants answered with stones. The brigadier, pursued, also shot four people who had nothing to do with it. By the end of the day there were eight dead, many wounded, and more than a hundred and eighty arrested.
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Places to see within 25 km
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chiesa dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo 📍 Luni · 400 m Rothari levelled the Byzantine chapel; in the eleventh century Nicola rebuilt on its highest point. santuario di Nostra Signora del Mirteto 📍 Luni · 1.1 km In 1537 a painting wept tears of blood: from that grew the sanctuary above Ortonovo. chiesa di San Lorenzo 📍 Luni · 1.3 km Built between 1621 and 1645 on the ruins of a castle, a perpetual abbey since 1714. chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km Three naves on eight columns of Carrara marble, under a portal carved in 1671. Palazzo Amati Ingolotti Cornelio 📍 Castelnuovo Magra · 2.5 km A marchese rebuilt it for his duchess wife; its sixteenth-century cellars now pour the local wine. Luna 📍 Luni · 2.9 km Rome's marble port: forum, theatre and an amphitheatre for 7,000, at the mouth of the Magra.