Patron saint festival In 48 days
Feast of Saint Francis Xavier
📅 Every year, on 3 December
On 3 December Sorbo San Basile celebrates its patron Saint Francis Xavier; the municipal territory includes Colle Castagna.
The name says two things: the sorb, the tree with sour fruit that grows here in quantity, and Saint Basil, because of the Basilian monks who had a monastery in this area as early as 640. The village stands at six hundred metres on the eastern flank of the Sila Piccola, on the right bank of the river Alli.
Higher up, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-two metres, on the western shore of Lake Passante, is the Lagomar village, where people go up in summer: around it are the woods of the Sila Piccola. The municipal coat of arms is recent: it was granted only in 2018, and before that the village had no official one. Little written history is left, and what is known of the past comes from the name and from the monks.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sorbo San Basile, but an easy day trip away.
chiesa di San Liberale 📍 Belluno · 18 km A very old little church on the hill of Pedeserva, in Belluno, with a stone-slab roof and a crypt. chiesa dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio 📍 Belluno · 19 km A thirteenth-century church in Belluno divided in two by a wall, between the faithful and the enclosed nuns. chiesa di Sant'Aronne 📍 Belluno · 19 km The parish church of Cusighe, in Belluno, with an altarpiece by Girolamo Denti and a Last Supper by Paris Bordon. chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo 📍 Belluno · 19 km The nineteenth-century parish church of Sargnano, in Belluno, built over almost thirty years, with a Besarel tabernacle. chiesa di Santo Stefano 📍 Belluno · 20 km The Servites' Gothic church in Belluno, in white and red stone, with Brustolon's angels and a 24-hour clock. chiesa di San Rocco 📍 Belluno · 20 km Belluno's votive church, born of the plague of 1530, in Castellavazzo stone, with a canvas by Gaspare Diziani.