Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
📅 Every year, on 28 and 29 September
On 28 and 29 September Sant'Angelo di Brolo celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; the village is also known for the Hazelnut Festival, on 12 August.
The legend says count Roger, worn out by a whole day of battle against the Saracens, asked heaven for help: Saint Michael appeared, and the sun did not set until the enemy was beaten. In thanks he had the monastery built, and around the monastery the town was born.
The monastery, entrusted to the Basilians, dates from 1084, and for centuries its abbots were also lords of the place. The name joins the church of Sant'Angelo and the Latin brolum, the enclosed and cultivated field. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries silk was made here, and with silk the town reached its height: today there are salami and hazelnuts. There are 3,297 residents.
The Sant'Angelo di Brolo guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Sant'Angelo di Brolo 1
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🍝 The flavours of Sant'Angelo di Brolo
Arancino fried rice cone stuffed with ragù, pointed like Etna
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo inside a golden cone-shaped crust: in Catania it is masculine and pointed, and the quarrel with Palermo over the name is serious.
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Pitone messinese fried half-moon pastry filled with escarole, tuma cheese and anchovies
A thin sheet of dough folded into a half-moon and fried, with escarole, tuma cheese, anchovies and black pepper inside: Messina’s street food, to eat hot straight from the rosticceria.
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Near Sant'Angelo di Brolo
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sant'Angelo di Brolo, but an easy day trip away.
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.