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
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🍝 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.
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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 Torrenova
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Torrenova, but an easy day trip away.
Chiesa di Santa Maria 📍 Cantù · 12 km The octagonal seventeenth-century church built for the Benedictine nuns of Cantù, beside today's town hall. chiesa dei Santi Materno e Lucia (complesso) 📍 Lecco · 12 km The friary of Fra Cristoforo from The Betrothed, in Pescarenico, with a canvas by Cerano. Basilica di San Nicolò 📍 Lecco · 12 km Lecco's principal church, with its 96-metre neo-Gothic bell tower built on a Spanish bastion. Mura di Lecco 📍 Lecco · 12 km The triangular Visconti walls that enclosed Lecco, of which the Torre Viscontea and the Vallo survive. villa Manzoni 📍 Lecco · 13 km Alessandro Manzoni's family home in Lecco, now a Manzoni museum and art gallery. chiesa di San Giuseppe al Caleotto 📍 Lecco · 13 km The tent-shaped church of the Caleotto in Lecco, in reinforced concrete with parabolic arches, from 1951.