Patron saint festival In 23 days
Feast of the Holy Saviour
📅 Every year, on 9 November
On 9 November Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina celebrates its patron, the Holy Saviour, to whom the church in the historic centre is dedicated.
The municipality is made of two detached pieces, kept apart by Pomarance and Radicondoli, and by some forty metres it fails to touch Volterra. In 1639 grand duke Ferdinando II raised it to a marquisate for Luca degli Albizi, who with the fief got civil and criminal justice and the taxes on milling and on livestock; in 1781 the last Albizi, childless, gave the whole thing up.
Under this ground there is steam: the geothermal field of Castelnuovo is the largest in continental Europe, and around Sasso Pisano the lagoni throw out water above sixty degrees, which ends up in a public wash-house. For the men who worked the steam vents the boric village was built in 1958, with its chapel, to a design by Giovanni Michelucci.
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Cattedrale della Madonna del Ponte 📍 Lanciano · 5.7 km Lanciano's cathedral, built over the arches of a bridge, with the terracotta statue of the Madonna del Ponte. Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari 📍 Lanciano · 6.0 km The church of Lanciano's Sacca district, with a late Gothic bell tower and fourteenth-century True Cross frescoes. Punta Aderci Reserve 📍 Vasto · 20 km Established in 1998, this 285-hectare coastal reserve features sandy dunes and the towering Punta Penna lighthouse. Riserva naturale guidata Punta Aderci 📍 Vasto · 19 km The first reserve on the Abruzzo coast: 285 hectares of beaches, dunes and cliffs north of the port of Vasto. spiaggia di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 21 km The beach of sand and dunes below the Punta Penna promontory, inside the Punta Aderci reserve. Faro di Punta Penna 📍 Vasto · 22 km Vasto's 70-metre lighthouse, the second tallest in Italy after Genoa's Lanterna, with 307 steps to the top.