Patron saint festival In 270 days
Saint Peter the Apostle and the Nicola Calipari Botanical Garden
📅 Every year, on the second Sunday of July
San Pietro in Lama celebrates Saint Peter the Apostle on the second Sunday of July.
The official name tells a legend: Saint Peter, on his way to Rome, is said to have avoided still-pagan Lecce by passing through a marshy stretch that here was called lama. But on the old maps the village is also San Pietro de l'imbrici, after the men who worked the clay and made the roof tiles, and in dialect that is the name that stuck: Sampiètru ti l'ìrmici.
In the fourteen hundreds there were thirty-eight families, all on one street, and most of them worked clay. In a late seventeenth-century canvas, in the church of the Croce, the village as it was is painted behind Saint Irene: the chapel of San Nicola is there too, and it no longer exists. Between 1816 and 1865 the comune was officially called Lama.
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Near San Pietro in Lama
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside San Pietro in Lama, 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.