Patron saint festival In 72 days
Saint Stephen, patron of Cetona
📅 Every year, on 26 December
Cetona celebrates Saint Stephen on 26 December.
In 1418 the condottiero Braccio da Montone took Cetona and sold it to the Sienese. The people stayed loyal to Siena for almost a century and a half; then, in 1556, worn down by plagues and wars, they surrendered without fighting to the imperial army that had appeared under their walls.
Three years later Cosimo I gave the fief to Chiappino Vitelli, the general who had conquered Siena for him; the Vitelli opened up the town, shut inside its grim walls, and made it a place to live in. In 1652 the fortress, by then a private house, was granted to the Burchielli with one condition: to keep the public clock and the houses around it in order.
The Cetona guide
🎉 Festivals and feasts in Cetona 1
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🍝 The flavours of Cetona
Panforte di Siena sweet of almonds, candied fruit, honey and spices pressed into a disc
Almonds, candied fruit, flour, honey and spices pressed into a low disc: Siena's panforte has a recipe documented since 1205.
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Near Cetona
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
Places to see within 25 km
Outside Cetona, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Visconteo 📍 Legnano · 2.1 km Medieval castle on an Olona island, once the convent of San Giorgio, with the Lampugnani keep of 1437-1445. Chiesa di Sant'Ambrogio 📍 Legnano · 2.6 km Legnano's oldest church, rebuilt in 1590 and enlarged in 1740, with paintings by the Lampugnani. Basilica di San Magno 📍 Legnano · 2.8 km Renaissance basilica of the Bramante school built from 1504 to 1513, with Bernardino Luini's polyptych. Chiesa di Santa Rita 📍 Legnano · 3.2 km Church of the Purification, later Santa Rita, annexed to the Melzi institute, with Lampugnani frescoes. Museo civico Guido Sutermeister 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Legnano's archaeological museum, set up in 1929, with finds from the Copper Age to the Lombards and the Sala collection. Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore 📍 Legnano · 3.4 km Lombard Romanesque church of 1902 at Legnanello, with a Byzantine altar of Carrara marble and mosaics of 1923.