Patron saint festival In 281 days
Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene
📅 Every year, on 22 July
On 22 July Rocca Pietore, a municipality of 1,322 inhabitants in the province of Belluno, celebrates its patroness Mary Magdalene (Maria Maddalena).
For four hundred and eleven years this was almost a state: the Magnifica Comunità della Rocca, with its statutes from 1417, paid few taxes, supplied no soldiers, traded with the Tyrol and bought its salt directly in Salzburg, without going through Belluno.
At Saviner there was a court, «el Banch de la Reson»: it was made up of elected heads of families, and it could go as far as a death sentence, even for deeds committed outside the territory. Belluno sent a captain three times a year to check that all was in order. It all ended in 1806, with Napoleon. The comune was called simply Rocca until 1867, but «Pietore», from the Latin for chest, is already in a document of 1148.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Rocca Pietore, but an easy day trip away.
Castello Sanfelice 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.1 km At 783 metres above Bagnoli, the fortress that guarded the Castel di Sangro-Lucera drove road. chiesa di San Silvestro 📍 Bagnoli del Trigno · 4.5 km A church with no façade, wedged between two rocks, and a crucifix with jointed arms. Castello d'Evoli 📍 Castropignano · 9.4 km Legend gives it 365 rooms: the d'Evoli stronghold above the Biferno valley Santuario italico di Pietrabbondante 📍 Pietrabbondante · 11 km The theatre and temples where the Pentri Samnites gathered their senate, above the Trigno. castello D'Alessandro 📍 Pescolanciano · 11 km A drawbridge finished in 1691, relics in the ducal chapel, German officers in 1943. torre di Oratino 📍 Oratino · 12 km A doorway high above the ground and a ladder to haul up: the Norman tower of Oratino.