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Feast of Sant'Egidio abate
📅 Every year, on 1 September
On 1 September Ospedaletto, a municipality of 820 inhabitants in the province of Trento, celebrates its patron Sant'Egidio abate.
Ospedaletto never had a hospital: the name comes from the hospice that gave travellers a bed on the road running from the Veneto to the countries of the north, and it is first mentioned in 1190. It was held, it is thought, by Benedictine monks; to give hospitality, then, was said that way.
On the flank of Monte Lefre stands the ponte dell'Orco: two pillars of rock hollowed out by water with a block of dolomite laid across them, and the story says it was the devil who built it, for a shepherd who could not get from one side of the mountain to the other. At the sanctuary of the Rocchetta, instead, every 31 July they remember an apparition of 1640 and the healing of a deaf-mute boy of the village.
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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.