During the feast of the Patron Saint Eustace, the citizens of Poli prepare food to offer to visitors.
You can thus enjoy the first course in one house, the second in another, and so on. This is a special custom of giving hospitality that probably has its origin in a story that took place in 1467.
Some citizens and Stefano Conti, the local lord, were accused of heresy because they followed a Fraticelli sect and were imprisoned at Saint Angel castle in Rome.
Pope Paul II gave a punishment even to the whole territory: on the first day of Lent they had to make a procession dedicated to St. Rocco and organize a lunch for 12 poor people of the country.
This punishment was lifted only in 1886.
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