Patron saint festival In 26 days
Feast of Saint Martin
📅 Every year, on 11 November
On 11 November Castel San Niccolò celebrates its patron Saint Martin, to whom the Pieve di San Martino a Vado is dedicated.
Strada in Casentino, which is the chief village, is called the town of worked stone: around it are the quarries of pietra serena, and in it the families of stonecutters who have handed the trade down for centuries. In the former Jesuit college there is a museum, and every two years a biennale brings sculptors here from all over the world. On the hills, meanwhile, they grow firs to sell at Christmas.
The castle of the counts Guidi was called Corte in Vado and stood on the boundary between the republics of Arezzo and Florence. It was the Guidi's until 1440, then the residence of the Florentine podestà; when the podestà moved to Poppi, the castle became a farmhouse, and so it stayed until the restoration of 1970. Inside, one hall has mullioned windows with the arms of the Arte della Lana.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Castel San Niccolò, but an easy day trip away.
Villa Pallavicino 📍 Salerano Canavese · 5.8 km The Second Empire villa gazing over the morainic amphitheatre of Ivrea from a hill above Salerano Canavese. Torre di Pramotton 📍 Donnas · 15 km A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Bard. Castello di Suzey 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A ruin above Ivéry: in 1351 the Vallaise held an Ivrea merchant prisoner here for ransom. Pont Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km Two thousand years of traffic on a single span: the boldest flat arch left from Roman times. Riserva naturale stagno di Holay 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 15 km A hectare and a half of wetland at 750 metres, with relict species rare in the Aosta Valley. castello di Pont-Saint-Martin 📍 Pont-Saint-Martin · 16 km The old castle, with its rare hexagonal keep, half an hour up through the vineyards above the town.