Patron saint festival In 214 days
Pentecost, patron of the Abbey of Follina
📅 Every year, on Pentecost Sunday
Follina celebrates Pentecost, its patron feast, on whichever Sunday it falls each year.
The name is a trade: Follina comes from the medieval Latin «fullare», that is fulling, the beating of woollen cloth. The people who brought that work into the valley were the Cistercians, who settled here around the middle of the twelfth century and built the abbey of Santa Maria; the cloister was completed in 1268, and the names from that building site are on record: the builder monks Arnaldo and Andrea and the master masons Zardino and Armano.
The trade held for centuries. Around 1680 Francesco Fadda of Brescia opened a manufactory here, among the first in Italy to try imitating the finer, lighter English and Dutch cloths; around 1740 came the Tron and Stahl wool mills, with foreign technicians. Then, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the crisis: by 1891 not one wool mill was still working. Of the work that made the village, the name is what is left.
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Near Follina
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Follina, 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.