Patron saint festival In 48 days
Saint Barbara, patron of Rio's miners
📅 Every year, on 4 December
Rio celebrates Saint Barbara, patron of miners, on 4 December, in a town tied to Elba's mining history.
Rio was born on the first of January 2018 from the merger of Rio Marina and Rio nell'Elba, after a referendum: the offices are at Rio Marina, the council meets at Rio nell'Elba. The arms were chosen by the citizens in a vote: the tower of Rio Marina with its polygonal base, the three golden bees of one village and the mountain with the pickaxes of the other.
The pickaxes are the iron, which for centuries was everybody's trade here: the mines are now a park and a museum of Elban minerals. The comune also owns four islets offshore — Palmaiola, Cerboli, Ortano and the isola dei Topi — while up in the hills there remain the ruins of Grassera, a medieval village, and on the coast those of a Roman villa at Capo Castello.
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Patron saint festival In 281 days
Saint James the Greater, summer patron of Rio
📅 Every year, on 25 July
Rio celebrates Saint James the Greater on 25 July, in the Church of San Giacomo Apostolo.
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Near Rio
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Rio, but an easy day trip away.
Royal Palace of Caserta 📍 Caserta · 18 km The Bourbon palace: 1,200 rooms, 1,742 windows and three kilometres of fountains uphill. Belvedere di San Leucio 📍 Caserta · 15 km UNESCO Bourbon complex at San Leucio, with royal apartments, Italian garden and Silk Museum. Oasi Bosco di San Silvestro 📍 Caserta · 15 km WWF oasis of 1993 on the hills of Montemaiulo and Montebriano, a former Bourbon royal estate of 76 hectares. Fontana di Diana e Atteone 📍 Caserta · 15 km Fountain with marble groups of the myth of Diana and Actaeon, at the end of the Italian garden of the Reggia di Caserta. Castello di Casertavecchia 📍 Caserta · 18 km Ruined castle of Casertavecchia, with a great sixteen-sided cylindrical keep. chiesa di San Rufo 📍 Caserta · 17 km Medieval parish church of Piedimonte, in tuff, with an exposed dome, fifteenth-century frescoes and a cippus of 1556.