Distance Peschici – Monte Sant’Angelo : 58 km.
(30 km. from Forest Umbra)

Monte Sant'Angelo, town of 13.491 inhabitants of the province of Foggia, it belongs to the National Park and the Community Mountain of the Gargano. Been born around the year 1000, between 1086 and 1105 it was capital of a vast Norman possession; it is risen on a cliff of the Gargano between secular woods and a crystalline sea, abandoned on a rock of rich calcareous nature of caverns and among these there is the famous cave of the archangel Michael.

The “Liber de apparitione Santi Michaelis in Monte Gargano”, written in the VIII century, reconstructs together in precise and suggestive way the miraculous facts that gave origin to the cult of the archangel Michael on the Gargano. It is tied up to the memory of four miraculous apparitions that accaddere here during the centuries.

Among the pilgrims we find numerous Popes (Gelasio I, S. Leo IX, Urbano II, Alexander III, Gregorio X, S. Celestino V, Giovanni XXIII as cardinal, Giovanni Paul II), Sovereign (Ludovico II, OTTONE III and his mother Teofane, Henry II, Matilde of Canossa, Charles of Angiò, Alfonso in Aragon, Ferdinando the Catholic, Sigismondo the Old King of Poland, the kings borboni Ferdinando I and Ferdinando II, Vittorio Emanuele III and Umberto II of Savoia, different heads of government and ministers); some Saints (Anselmo, Bernard of Chiaravalle, Guglielmo from Vercelli, Francis of Assisi, Brigida of Sweden, Bona in Pisa, Alfonso de' Liguori, Gerardo Maiella, the Venerable Servant of God P. Pious from Pietrelcina and numerous others), but above all the believers come by all the nations for the charm of the crypts and of the Celestial Basilica so unusual, where they find hope, pardon and peace for intercession of S. Archangel Michael.