Patron saint festival In 20 days
Feast of Saint Leonard
📅 Every year, on 6 November
On 6 November Castelnuovo celebrates its patron Saint Leonard; the town preserves an Austro-Hungarian era water pumping station.
The name comes from a castle: beside the church of Santa Margherita, which is at least of the thirteenth century, the remains of a small fortification can still be seen, and the village formed around it. The lords who held it, the da Castelnuovo, managed to make of it a kind of middle ground between the principality of Trento and the county of Feltre: the border ran through here.
The village stands where the Maso torrent runs into the Brenta, at the foot of monte Civerone. The parish church of San Leonardo is of the fifteenth century and the patron is kept on the sixth of November; on the arms, as one would expect, there is a castle with two little towers. After the war industry came here, but the land is still good for fruit and for the vine.
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Museo diocesano di Rieti 📍 Rieti · 17 km Rieti's diocesan museum, a route through baptistery, sacristies, lapidarium and the Papal Palace gallery. Oratorio di San Pietro martire 📍 Rieti · 17 km The chapel of Rieti's San Domenico convent with the Torresani brothers' Last Judgement, rarely open. Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Sallust's Sabine city under the fields: a theatre, an amphitheatre and a whole Amiternum never excavated. chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo 📍 L'Aquila · 23 km Romanesque church at San Vittorino with fifth-century catacombs, near ancient Amiternum. Teatro romano di Amiternum 📍 L'Aquila · 22 km Augustan theatre of ancient Amiternum, near San Vittorino, with opus reticulatum walls.