Patron saint festival In 51 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Castell'Azzara celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas; the town preserves Rocca Silvana.
The name comes from a game of dice. Tradition says two Aldobrandeschi brothers were disputing the castle and decided to play for it at zara, the gambling game of the time: on the coat of arms, above the three towers, the three dice are still there. The town hall stands at eight hundred and fifteen metres, the highest in the province of Grosseto.
In the mines of the Siele they dug cinnabar, from which mercury is obtained. A Jewish family from Livorno, the Della Riccia-Finzi, had come to work there: they were arrested in early December 1943 and all died at Auschwitz in May 1944, including Gigliola, who had been born on 19 February while the family was already shut in the camp of Roccatederighi.
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Marinelli Bell Foundry 📍 Agnone · 10 km One of Italy's oldest family businesses, this pontifical foundry has been casting bells since 1040. chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Agnone · 10 km An emerald-green dome, a Gothic portal and a book museum inside the friary. chiesa di San Marco Evangelista 📍 Agnone · 9.8 km A Venetian winged lion carved over the portal of Agnone's mother church. chiesa di Sant'Emidio Vescovo e Martire 📍 Agnone · 10 km The Gothic portal and rose window of the church Agnone calls its duomo. Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 17 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Carovilli · 18 km The marble font carved with the barons' portraits, in Carovilli's parish church.