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Church · Foglianise (BN)

Church of San Rocco in Foglianise

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 342 m
Pictured: Foglianise · VallVit · CC0 · resized

The country chapel of San Rocco, from 1579, is the heart of Foglianise's devotion and of the Wheat Festival.

On the edge of Foglianise, in the old hamlet of the Cautani, stands the Chapel of San Rocco, built in 1579. It is a small country building that holds a polychrome wooden statue of the saint, the village's patron. During the plague of 1656, which claimed over a thousand lives, the inhabitants turned to him in this very chapel.From that devotion comes the Festa del Grano (Wheat Festival): on 16 August, the saint's day, the wheat floats are blessed in front of the chapel, in a tradition that merged with the cult of St Roch in the 18th century. We love experiencing this moment together with the community. We recommend coming to Foglianise in mid-August.

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