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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Chiesa di San Pietro 📍 Cento · 8.9 km One of Cento's oldest churches, thirteenth-century, with a five-bay portico: three Guercino altarpieces once hung here. Basilica di San Biagio 📍 Cento · 9.1 km Cento's Baroque cathedral church, reopened in 2018 after the earthquake: an elliptical dome and two Guercino paintings. Rocca di Cento 📍 Cento · 9.4 km The fortress the Bolognese built in Cento from 1378: a keep, three corner towers and the cells used until 1969. Centro di documentazione del mondo agricolo ferrarese 📍 Ferrara · 16 km Museum of Ferrara's farming world at San Bartolomeo in Bosco, opened 1981, over ten thousand objects. Este Castle 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Built in 1385 around four imposing towers, this moated medieval fortress is the Renaissance centerpiece of Ferrara. cattedrale di San Giorgio 📍 Ferrara · 20 km Romanesque below, Gothic above: Nicholaus's façade, the merchants' loggias and the Months in the museum.