Patron saint festival
Feast of Saint Eumenius
📅 Every year, on 18 September
On 18 September Ficulle celebrates Saint Eumenius; in summer the village also hosts the Ficulle In Rock Festival, in the natural amphitheatre of the public park.
The name most likely comes from figulus, the potter: terracotta has always been worked at Ficulle. On the coat of arms, though, there is a fig tree, because for centuries people believed the town came from Ficulea in the Sabine country.
The Romans kept a lookout post here on the Via Traiana: from that time survives a marble cippus dedicated to Mithras, now in the church of Santa Maria Vecchia. The Camaldolese abbey of San Nicola al Monte Orvietano hosted the monk Gratian, the man of the Decretum, who taught at Bologna. From 1416 Ficulle followed Orvieto into the Papal State. The walls and the two fortresses remain; the 1,695 residents make wine, oil and still pots.
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🍝 The flavours of Ficulle
Orvieto white DOC wine from the hills between Terni and Viterbo
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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Bagni di Cefalà Diana 📍 Cefalà Diana · 8.4 km The only Islamic bathhouse still standing in Sicily: four sunken pools and a worn Kufic band Monte Porcara 📍 Bagheria · 16 km 388-metre mountain above Bagheria: walls and necropolis of a Hellenised indigenous settlement, perhaps ancient Paropo. Castello di Misilmeri 📍 Misilmeri · 17 km An Arab-Norman fortress built by Emir Jafar II between 998 and 1019 overlooking the Eleuterio River valley. Villa Valguarnera 📍 Bagheria · 18 km Eighteenth-century villa in Bagheria begun in 1712: key-shaped plan, frescoed salons and the Montagnola hill. Villa Palagonia 📍 Bagheria · 19 km Bagheria's villa of the monsters, which unsettled Goethe and entered Faust. Torre Amalfitano 📍 Bagheria · 17 km Farm tower in Bagheria, probably thirteenth-century, rebuilt in 1546: water cistern, warehouse and crenellated terrace.