Patron saint festival
Feast of the Madonna Addolorata
📅 Every year, on 15 September
On 15 September Torrenova celebrates the Madonna Addolorata; the village also preserves old coastal watchtowers, such as Torre Gatto and Torre Marco.
There were three towers, put up from the fifteenth century against pirates and part of the coastal watch system designed by the Florentine Camillo Camilliani. The most recent was called Torre Nuova, the new tower, and from it the town took its name. Of Torre Cuffari a ruin is left; Torre Marco collapsed in January 2019.
Torrenova has been a comune only since 9 December 1984: before that it was a frazione of San Marco d'Alunzio. Outside the built-up area stands the Byzantine church of San Pietro in Deca, a Greek-Basilian monastery recorded from the twelfth century: what remains is a round dome, later given an octagonal outer casing that has no equal in Sicily. There are 4,240 residents.
The Torrenova guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Torrenova 1
No events match these filters.
🍝 The flavours of Torrenova
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.
Read more →
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.
Read more →Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
Near Torrenova
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Torrenova, but an easy day trip away.
Città Alta and the Venetian Walls 📍 Bergamo · 18 km A 6,200-meter wall built by Venice in the 16th century, this UNESCO World Heritage site encloses Bergamo Alta. Accademia Carrara 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The count founded the gallery and the school together, so pupils could copy from life. Teatro Gaetano Donizetti 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The theatre born where wooden huts once stood, now Donizetti's home. basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Bergamo · 18 km The church without a façade in Bergamo's upper town: Campione's lions and the intarsias designed by Lotto. chiesa dei Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano 📍 Bergamo · 17 km The lower Bergamo church with the Martinengo altarpiece, Lotto's largest. chiesa di Santo Spirito 📍 Bergamo · 17 km Bergamo church called «of the Tasso», with Lorenzo Lotto's 1521 altarpiece and the via Pignolo chapels.