Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Sagrado celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas; the town hosts the Museo della Grande Guerra, on the Isonzo front.
The name is Slovene: za gradišče, «behind the fortress». The comune lies between the left bank of the Isonzo and the Carso, and reaches up to Monte San Michele, where in the First World War Italians and Austro-Hungarians slaughtered each other for months. Here Italian, Friulian and Slovene are all spoken and all protected, plus Bisiaco; in three hamlets the signs are bilingual.
The coat of arms is a summary of the place: the wavy band is the Isonzo, the five little crosses recall the old sagrado named in a document of the doge Leonardo Loredan, and the lily with two sceptres comes from the Della Torre, who held the fief from 1556 to 1847. On the road to Fogliano the boundary stone that marked the Austrian-Venetian frontier is still there. At Peteano, in 1972, the attack remembered as the Peteano massacre took place.
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Places to see within 25 km
Outside Sagrado, but an easy day trip away.
Castellazzo 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of the medieval fort on the morainic hill that overlooks Caluso. chiesa di San Calocero 📍 Caluso · 3.5 km The ruins of a Romanesque church of 1177, the castle's own, with Roman bricks in its walls. Palazzo Valperga di Masino 📍 Caluso · 3.6 km The Valperga palace, now town hall and regional wine cellar, with a park turned botanical garden. Villa Griselli 📍 Caluso · 3.8 km An Art Nouveau villa of 1926, built at Caluso by a doctor home from Argentina. castello di Malgrà 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 9.7 km A fourteenth-century castle on the plain, remade by Alfredo d'Andrade: the railway ran beneath it. chiesa parrocchiale di San Michele 📍 Rivarolo Canavese · 10 km An octagonal church of 1759, a masterpiece by Vittone, with a statue fished from the Orco.