Patron saint festival In 304 days
Saint Roch, patron of Stornara
📅 Every year, on 16 August
Stornara celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August, in the church dedicated to him.
The town was born of a king's experiment: in 1774 Ferdinand IV settled families of colonists on the lands confiscated from the Jesuits, and out of that operation came five new villages, this one among them. The name, instead, is a bird's: the starling that sweeps over the wheat fields in autumn when the ground is being made ready for sowing, which the old arms set on a battlemented tower.
During the war the Americans built a bomber field here, with a runway of pierced steel plank and a steel control tower: B-24s flew from it until 1945, and today that ground is farmland again. In recent years the walls of the village have filled instead with murals painted by artists from half the world, more than a hundred of them, and people come on purpose to see them.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Stornara, but an easy day trip away.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Frosinone · 700 m Frosinone's cathedral on the ancient acropolis, with a 62-metre Romanesque bell tower that survived the war. Chiesa di San Benedetto 📍 Frosinone · 800 m Frosinone's Benedictine church, rebuilt in the eighteenth century, with its convex late Baroque façade.