Patron saint festival In 51 days
Saint Nicholas and the Kalòs Archeodromo del Salento
📅 Every year, on 6 December
Caprarica di Lecce celebrates Saint Nicholas on 6 December, in the mother church dedicated to him.
In 1480, when the Turks besieged Otranto and razed Roca to the ground, Caprarica took in those who had fled from there, and from then on it was larger. On the coat of arms there is a goat with seven ears of wheat: the name is said to come from capra ricca, rich in goats, because goats were raised here and milk was made.
Rebuilding piazza Vittoria brought to light two churches, one under the other: the one demolished in 1958 and, lower down, one of the thirteenth century with Byzantine frescoes and inscriptions in Greek, and a carved eagle that perhaps stood on the pulpit. Around it was the cemetery: in the tombs cut into the rock the skeletons still wore their bronze buckles and earrings.
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Basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carpi · 24 km Carpi cathedral begun in 1514 to Peruzzi's design, reopened in 2017 after the 2012 earthquake. Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola 📍 Carpi · 24 km Jesuit church of 1670-1682 in Carpi, on a Greek-cross plan, with scagliola altars and the diocesan museum. Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello 📍 Carpi · 24 km Romanesque pieve of 1184, the oldest church in Carpi, with a Peruzzi façade and twelfth-century frescoes. Chiesa di San Bernardino da Siena 📍 Carpi · 24 km Patron church of Carpi, begun in 1604, with the reliquary bust of Saint Bernardino of Siena.