Patron saint festival
Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
📅 Every year, on 12 September
On 12 September Capriva del Friuli celebrates the Holy Name of Mary; the village's parish church bears the same title.
The Roman name of the place is unknown and has left no trace: in the tenth century, after the Hungarian raids, the village was abandoned, and in the century after that Slav settlers refounded it and called it by a word meaning nettle. It is written Copris in 1202 and Coprewa some twenty years later.
Under Austria it was simply Capriva; in 1923, with the annexation, a royal decree made it Capriva di Cormons, and in 1954 Capriva del Friuli. It lies in the Collio among the vines, and for centuries it was a point of contact between Romance and Slav people. At the castle of Spessa, on the edge of the village, Giacomo Casanova stayed in 1773.
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chiesa dei Santi Gratiniano e Felino 📍 Arona · 2.9 km A former abbey church of 979: a Bergognone altarpiece of 1488 and relics displayed every 13 March. Colosso di san Carlo Borromeo 📍 Arona · 3.1 km A copper statue 35 metres tall, blessed in 1698: you can climb inside it, right up into the saint's head. Rocca di Arona 📍 Arona · 2.9 km Only fragments remain of the fortress where Carlo Borromeo was born in 1538, dismantled by the French in 1800. chiesa di San Giuseppe 📍 Arona · 2.9 km A church of 1204 with a surprise beneath the floor: a Gaulish burial ground and a Roman smelting furnace. sacro monte di Arona 📍 Arona · 3.0 km The Sacro Monte that was never finished: of fifteen planned chapels only three were built, and the colossus remained. villa Cantoni 📍 Arona · 3.0 km A nineteenth-century villa below the Rocca with frescoes by Giacomo Casa, left empty for decades after 1943.