Patron saint festival In 201 days
The Holy Crucifix, patron of May
📅 Every year, from 2 to 4 May
Muro Leccese celebrates the Holy Crucifix from 2 to 4 May. The town's other patron, Saint Orontius, is celebrated on 26 August.
The name comes from the walls: the Messapians enclosed a little more than a hundred hectares within a circuit of squared blocks four kilometres long, and the town inside it was one of the most flourishing of its time, until Roman troops razed it in the third century before Christ.
In 924 the Saracens destroyed what had been rebuilt, and the town has kept the memory on its own arms, where there is a Moor's head: you find it again carved above the great window of the mother church, raised at the end of the seventeenth century and so full of paintings that it serves as a picture gallery. Of the ancient Messapian city important finds remain, and it is for those that Muro has been declared a town of art.
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Patron saint festival In 316 days
Saint Orontius, patron of August
📅 Every year, on 26 August
Muro Leccese celebrates Saint Orontius on 26 August. The town's other patron, the Holy Crucifix, is celebrated from 2 to 4 May.
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Near Muro Leccese
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Muro Leccese, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.