Patron saint festival In 306 days
Feast of San Rocco
📅 Every year, on 16 August
On 16 August Monteleone di Puglia, a municipality of 1,067 inhabitants in the province of Foggia, celebrates its patron San Rocco.
At 842 metres Monteleone is the highest municipality in Apulia, looking out over the upper valley of the Cervaro. The «di Puglia» in its name is older than the region as we know it: it served to tell the village from other Monteleones, and the Apulia it referred to was the Norman duchy of Apulia and Calabria. In the centuries of religious conflict the village took in many of the persecuted, Waldensians above all.
On 23 August 1942 Monteleone rose against the rules cutting the quotas of wheat that could be taken to the mill: public buildings were stormed and set on fire, and the news was reported with great prominence by Radio London. It was one of the first episodes of open anti-fascism in Italy, and the reprisal came as a house-by-house sweep. Thirteen years earlier, in 1929, a decree had detached the municipality from the province of Avellino and given it to that of Foggia.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Monteleone di Puglia, but an easy day trip away.
Castellana Caves 📍 Castellana Grotte · 1.8 km A 3,348-meter karst cave system mapped in 1938, noted for its 60-meter-deep skylight and dazzling white formations. Santuario di Maria Santissima Regina del Mondo 📍 Monopoli · 6.4 km The sanctuary in the Antonelli district of Monopoli, rebuilt as a vow for the town's safety and consecrated in 1950. Rione Monti 📍 Alberobello · 13 km The 1,030 trulli of Alberobello's larger quarter, laid dry-stone to dodge a tax. Trullo Sovrano 📍 Alberobello · 12 km With walls reaching 2.70 metres in thickness, the Trullo Sovrano is the supreme example of dry-stone architecture. Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali 📍 Polignano a Mare · 13 km Puglia's only permanent contemporary art museum, set in a former slaughterhouse overlooking the sea in Polignano. Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate 📍 Fasano · 17 km The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.