Patron saint festival In 222 days
Feast of Our Lady of the Palms
📅 Every year, on 24 May
On 24 May Aidomaggiore, a municipality of 472 inhabitants in the province of Oristano, celebrates its patroness Our Lady of the Palms.
The old name was Aidu, which in Sardinian means gap, entrance: it appears as villa de Aidu in the peace treaty of 1388 between Eleonora of Arborea and John I of Aragon. Under the Spanish it became Aido mayor, the greater entrance, and from that Italian made Aidomaggiore. The language, too, is in transit here: the speech of the village is the limba de mesania, the middle tongue between the two great varieties of Sardinian.
When the giudicato of Arborea fell in 1420, Aidomaggiore passed to the Aragonese and ended up in the Incontrada of Parte Ocier Reale, but with a difference from the villages around it: it was a royal fief, administered directly by officials of the Crown and not by a baron, and in 1839 it was bought out from the state, not from a family. In the countryside there remain well-preserved nuraghi, domus de janas and the giants' tomb of Iscralotze; in the village the parish church of Santa Maria delle Palme is of the sixteenth century, and the church of San Gavino is Romanesque.
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Museo storico militare Brigata Catanzaro 📍 Catanzaro · 7.8 km Catanzaro museum of the Catanzaro Brigade: arms, uniforms and relics from Napoleon to the Second World War. Chiesa di Sant'Omobono 📍 Catanzaro · 9.0 km Catanzaro church with Norman-Byzantine features, described as the oldest place of worship in the city. Basilica dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Catanzaro · 9.3 km Catanzaro basilica built in 1254, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, patron of the city. Chiesa del Santissimo Rosario 📍 Catanzaro · 9.5 km Fifteenth-century church in Catanzaro, consecrated in 1499, with a Baroque mother-of-pearl altar. Villa Margherita 📍 Catanzaro · 9.7 km Catanzaro's oldest public garden, of 1881, with an archaeological museum, a library and a view over the gulf. Castello normanno-svevo di Nicastro 📍 Lamezia Terme · 16 km Medieval castle on the hill of San Teodoro in Nicastro, with cylindrical towers and a pentagonal keep.