Patron saint festival In 192 days
Saint Mark, patron of Torricella
📅 Every year, on 25 April
Torricella celebrates Saint Mark on 25 April.
Torricella has been a comune only since 1954. Before that it was a frazione: of Sava until 1869, then of Lizzano; and until 1993, when Statte broke away from Taranto, it was the youngest comune in the province. Its own frazione of Monacizzo, on the other hand, is older than the village it belongs to.
The settlement was born in the eleventh century, when shepherds and peasants left the coast — Torre Ovo — to get out of reach of the Saracen pirates; the crypt of the Santissima Trinità, out in the fields, is of that time. Today the houses press around a tuff castle with three towers, of the Aragonese age, which the comune bought in 1978 to save it from collapse and restored: the municipal police are in it now.
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Patron saint festival In 298 days
Our Lady of Grace, Torricella's summer patron
📅 Every year, on 9 August
Torricella celebrates Our Lady of Grace on 9 August, in the church dedicated to her.
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Near Torricella
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Torricella, but an easy day trip away.
Palazzo Loreti 📍 Satriano di Lucania · 200 m Satriano's town hall keeps the medieval pottery found on the site of Satrianum. Rocca Duca di Poggiardo 📍 Satriano di Lucania · 300 m Satriano's Castello holds the multimedia museum devoted to the painter Giovanni De Gregorio. Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso 📍 Brienza · 5.6 km The crucifix stays on Monte Sacrato, at 1100 metres, from May to September. chiesa di San Martino 📍 Brienza · 6.8 km A perimeter of walls is all that is left of Brienza's oldest church, above the river. Castello Caracciolo 📍 Brienza · 7.0 km The marquises' rooms on the third floor, the prison inside the round tower. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Brienza · 7.0 km A three-nave crypt below the parish church, two Peccheneda canvases above.