Patron saint festival
Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian
📅 Every year, on 26 September
On 26 September Monteparano celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian, patrons alongside Saint Cajetan (7 August) and Saint Joseph (19 March).
Monteparano was one of the villages repopulated by the Albanians who arrived in the fifteenth century: the Greek rite was followed here, then the community left it and merged with the local one. Of the language and the rite nothing is left, and today the Salentino dialect is spoken, because this corner of the province of Taranto is Salento.
The village stands on a low hill of the Taranto Murge, at a hundred and thirty metres, some ten kilometres from the sea. Near the square is the D'Ayala Valva castle, and in largo Garibaldi the memorial to the fallen of the First World War, by the Taranto sculptor Aldo Pupino: on 4 November, at the ceremony, veterans of the Second have often spoken. In the fields around, primitivo is grown.
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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.