The parish church holds two objects that came from far away: an ivory crucifix of the seventeenth century, given by Louis XIV to a Spada cardinal living in Paris, and an Ottoman standard, taken from the Turks by Francesco Spada, an officer in Venetian service.
The Spada held the town in fief after the Monaldeschi della Cervara, who had built the castle in the fourteenth century: it is called Castello di Madonna and still belongs to the dukes of Montevecchio. Long before all that, a few kilometres away at Caldane, there was an Etruscan necropolis of the sixth century BC. The 3,028 residents live on the Alfina plateau, looking out over the Paglia valley.
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📅 Every year, on 27 August; also a patronal feast on 3 May for the Exaltation of the Cross
Castel Viscardo celebrates Saint Anthony of Padua on 27 August, the second patronal feast of the year after that of the Exaltation of the Cross, on 3 May; on 17 January animals are blessed and the traditional «panettuzzi di Sant'Antonio» are distributed.
A white wine carved into Etruscan tufa history, toasted by Garibaldi's Thousand: Orvieto has held Denominazione di Origine Controllata status since 1971.
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Outside Castel Viscardo, but an easy day trip away.
