Patron saint festival
Feast of San Michele
📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Castiglione di Garfagnana, a municipality of 1,860 inhabitants in the province of Lucca, celebrates its patron San Michele.
The church of San Pietro, at the foot of the fortress, was built in 723 by two Lombard brothers, Aurinand and Gudifrid: their names have survived, the church almost has not, for of that first building only the wall against the fortress and the lower part of the front are left.
For centuries Castiglione was a piece of the Republic of Lucca surrounded on every side by the state of the Este: Lucca spent heavily on its walls and towers, because through here ran the road by which Ferrara might have sent troops into the Serchio valley. In 1429 the Florentines laid siege to it, and the people held out until they learned that Paolo Guinigi had fallen in Lucca: then they surrendered. In the coat of arms the lion of the Castrum Leonis stands above the white and red of Lucca.
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Insigne collegiata parrocchiale di Santa Maria Maggiore 📍 Guglionesi · 12 km Beneath the late Baroque, a 12th-century crypt with two surviving frescoes. Torre di Petacciato 📍 Petacciato · 12 km A coastal tower of 1568, split in two by a landslide in 1777. Old Termoli 📍 Termoli · 15 km A walled Adriatic promontory featuring an 11th-century castle, a Romanesque cathedral, and historic wooden trabucchi. chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta 📍 Guardialfiera · 17 km A Holy Door that opens every year, except when it is a Jubilee. Riserva naturale regionale Marina di Vasto 📍 Vasto · 16 km Three kilometres of dunes and wetlands between Vasto and San Salvo, where the Kentish plover nests. cattedrale di Santa Maria della Purificazione 📍 Termoli · 19 km Dragons and griffins on the front, and a crypt with a Romanesque mosaic floor.